Clinton and his cigars were reelected to a second term.
And if that doesn’t seem like a great rate of participation, it looks magnificent compared to voting
turnout rates for Congress in non-presidential years. The most recent such rate for the 2010
Congressional elections was 38 percent it was 37 percent for 2006; and 37 percent for 2002.
… And against all that comparative data, recall that with our compulsory voting in Australia, federal election
turnout rates are always somewhere in the mid-90s. It was 95 percent at the last election. So even conceding that there are different ways to measure voter turnout rates, that there is room to concede that the figures may not be perfect, and also allowing for any other quibbles anyone may wish to make, what is not arguable is that in Australia afar higher percentage of people of voting age vote to choose their government than in the countries with which we would normally compare ourselves.
between an extra fifth to two-fifths of the voting population who have a say in choosing who will govern
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