Does anyone have any suggestions as of why voter turnout in america is so low?

Answer 1

Americans don't really seem to care and believe that their one vote won't matter but if you think about it that is what about half the population thinks. A thing you might want to think of too is if we get accurate results when we vote???

Answer 2

We all saw from the election of 2000 where our votes really go. Al Gore was voted President by the majority of the people, but due to the Electorial College, the current man in the Presidency was elected in.

We also saw during that year's election how corrupt politics really are. They lost how many chads in the home state of the current President's brother?

Why vote? That's the attitude of many people these days. Both of the main parties are so corrupt, they don't have a decent person running. Why choose the lesser of the two evils?

Politicians promise you the moon while running, so to get your vote. However, once in office those promises are out the window.

Look at how the current administration has stripped us of a lot of our once known freedoms. Just the other day the CIA has given the President executive authorizaton to get into Americans finanical information.

So, suggestions of why they don't vote... or do you mean suggestions in how to get voters to the polls?

We need someone in the seat that will do as our founding fathers stood for. We need someone in there that will be FOR THE PEOPLE, not for self gain or wealth. We don't need a dictatorship, we need a government that will come to the people and get their votes on what should happen in America.

Our politicans are so corrupt! They give themselves raises, while they keep minimum wage to $5.15 or thereabout for the common folk. They have given themsleves the best retirement plan, while they strip the common people of their retirement. They have stolen from the Social Security fund, the fund the common people have put and still putting their hard earn wages in, so they would have something when they retire.

We need to limit how many years the Senate and House can serve. They should all be limited to four years total, then get someone new in there. Take their retirement completely away from them. They can hold those seats forever and a day, retire and still get paid as if they are still sitting in them. Let's have them all serve for no wages period, see how many of them would stop running for those seats in which they have formed around their behinds. Or let's have them pay back wages into the current Social Security system, and make them pay into it as well. Talk about how fast Social Security would fill back up!!!!

Then you ask why voter turnout is low?

We The People should do as those that have come and gone before us. We need to start holding our politicans accountable for every thing they do in and out of the office.

Answer 3

There are so few candidates worth voting for.

In fact, of those who DO vote, I would guess a majority are not voting FOR their candidate as much as they are voting AGAINST his competition.

There are a lot of really wonderful people in this country, yet the two parties nominate idiots like George W. Bush and John Kerry to be our President.

The way to get people to vote is to give them someone worth voting for. Give them principled people. Even Howard Dean would have been acceptable, if still far from perfect.

But of course this won't happen. The parties nominate candidates based on how likely they are to win against the opposing party, not on how principled they are. So we will go on having mediocre (at best) candidates, and thus low voter turnout.

Answer 4

People come to feel that their vote actually doesn't count much. They feel that no matter who they vote for that the person who gets elected would have whether or not they voted. Apathy is also a contributor in that people hardly care anymore unless it's a local issue that they feel they can have an inpact on.

People don't usually treasure something until they lose it.

Answer 5

Most likely because every candidate lies to your face, tells you what you want to hear just so he can get into office. Once in office, they all have their own agendas. Look at Bush - Making his old daddy proud taking down Saddam on bogus charges and saving the precious oil. Voting has turned into picking the biggest and best liar and hoping they actually do something for American citizens.

Answer 6

Several reasons. People feel disenfranchised, that their vote doesn't really count, so why bother.

Also, there's this idea of refusing to vote for the "lesser of two evils". I wish people would remember we're not electing Mother Teresa, we're electing politicians. By their very nature they're less than perfect.

Fun fact: In the Nixon/Kennedy election, if only *one* more person in each district in the US had voted for Nixon, he would have won.

Answer 7

most people (who dont vote) feel as though there vote wont make a differnce and the other's are just too G.D.'n lazy. american people in all classes feel comfortable and safe at home doing there normal routine and never have had to experience serious neglect from the govenment. therefor there is no motivation to change or participate in something that seems to be working, for the moment...

Answer 8

we have no interest. the higher our education...the more politically aware we are...so the more we vote. but so many americans dont futher their education past highschool. some countries (like italy i think) makes it mandatory to vote. i think we should do that. or as incentive to vote offer voters $5...i mean the candidates for the senate raise about 1million for their campaigns....its ridiculous....
im 19 and now a sophomore in college. in highschool i had no interest in politics or knew a thing about it....just by taking 1 college government class, i'm now involved.

Answer 9

No interest. People just want to complain after the fact. Its easier than actually learning about candidates and casting a vote. For women and blacks...think about what your ancestors had to go through just to get you the right to vote. Think how they would feel that after all their suffering, you dont even use the right.

Answer 10

Apathy and a strong sense that the vote counts for little and there is no one people WANT to vote for, only the choice between crooks and bums, figureheads and the usual suspects