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hrmjustin

(71,265 posts) Fri May 2, 2014, 10:56 AM May 2014

NYC voter turnout stinks: report

CELESTE KATZ

Most New Yorkers who can vote... don't.

A new report from the city's Voter Assistance Advisory Commission finds that despite a range of enticements to get Gothamites to the polls, only a quarter of those eligible to vote in 2013's election of the first new mayor in a dozen years bothered to show up.

It raises the question of, if so few people cast a ballot in a major municipal election, how many people might vote this year?

Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/blogs/dailypolitics/nyc-voter-turnout-stinks-report-blog-entry-1.1776748#ixzz30ZQEoVZN

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