The Trustees Waterfront Ambassadors is a group of youth who did Summer work in East Boston. Listen to them to learn what they learned:
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Boston gets an F- for election turnout
16.5% is not an A
16.5% is not a B
16.5% is not a C
16.5% is not a D
16.5% is not even a respectable F
It’s an F-. And We Bostonians should be ashamed of it.
What a dismal turnout for a municipal election! 16.5%?! Is democracy slowly dying? Are the people in power actually more comfortable with a smaller engaged population? Isn’t their work less that way? Can we claim “Bostonians have spoken” when 83.5% of the registered voters didn’t vote? Is increasing voter turnout even on anyone’s agenda? Not sure it is — so where is this trend going? Are fewer and fewer people going to decide who and how all of us are governed?
| Shrugs | Really?! |
| If people don’t want to vote, you can’t force them. | Why don’t they? Also, is everyone who wants to vote voting? |
| Candidates are not exciting. | You’re not going to date them. |
| Campaigns don’t bother to reach out to all people. | Did you bother to reach out to the candidates? It is a democracy. |
| Results are already known. Nothing changes anyway. | As long as you have that attitude, yes. |
