Tag: Voter Turnout

App unnecessary for better voter turnout

An app pressuring friends into voting is the wrong solution to low voter turnout, but it’s a step in the right direction.   Vote With Me, the latest app by The New Data Project, has recently faced criticism due to its perceived invasion of privacy.    The application takes advantage of public U.S....

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Journal Roundtable: Federal Election

Gerretsen may surprise  By Ramna Safeer After the thick wave of red that swept over Canada on the night of the 19th — a turn I don’t think even the Liberals predicted — we might be surprised by Kingston MP-elect Liberal Mark Gerretsen’s fresh approach to student issues. Gerretsen’s term as Kingston’s...

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Blame boomers for low turnout

Ontario’s Oct. 6 provincial election that saw Dalton McGuinty’s Liberals form a minority government had a voter turnout of 49 per cent — the lowest in the province’s history. The result in Ontario is just the latest in a series of provincial elections around the country where the voter turnout has...

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