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Keith Wagstaff. Four Ways to boost the dismal turnout in Local Elections The Week
Magazine. September 2013. http://theweek.com/article/index/249385/4-ways-to-
boost-the-dismal-turnout-in-local-elections
Young people are notoriously unreliable voters. They are also fans of something called "the internet"
Hence a push to use social media and apps to get younger voters to the polls. In Vancouver, city officials
spent $10,000 on an app that would tell voters where and when to vote, who was on the ballot, and basic
information about voter eligibility in the hopes of boosting turnout fora civic election.
Last year, a study published in Nature found that a special nonpartisan "get out the vote" message on Facebook
— consisting of photos of friends who had voted — had "measurable if limited effect on voter turnout" according to The New York Times.
Another option is online voting, something that has already been put in place in around 80 Canadian
cities. In Markham, Ontario, overall turnout increased 10 percent in the four years after the city allowed
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