Word: voters
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HANOVER, N.H.--In their first face-to-face debate of the presidential campaign, Vice President Al Gore '69 and former New Jersey senator Bill Bradley wrestled last night for control of voter momentum in the Democratic party...
...vote truly becomes one's voice to be heard in the apportionment of representation. Nations that use proportional representation enjoy voter turnout rates high above those in the United States, which is currently mired in an undeniably alarming state of voter apathy. Voters in America are reluctant to vote for a third party because they fear theirs will be a wasted vote, and this may discourage them from voting altogether...
With proportional representation, every vote comes to have true meaning, instilling confidence in the effectiveness of democracy. This characteristic itself would encourage voters to go to the polls. In addition to increasing voter turnout, proportional representation addresses and remedies a number of deficiencies in our supposedly representative democracy...
...problem, in the most basic sense, is that students don't care. Voter turnouts are disgraceful, and students rarely use the council to spur campus-wide debate...
Grodd and Eric Landen, the two Manchester organizers, quickly instructed the small crowd on canvassing--how to deal with fawning or belligerent voters, what to do if the voter wants more information. They sent them on their way with an armful of door hangers (many people are not around on weekend afternoons...