Furthermore, they were characterized by low voter participation.

Foreign voter participation is clearly bound to work best at a local level, where the issues are more concrete.

Saudi intellectuals attribute the lack of voter interest to the absence of free expression and assembly, which frustrates genuine political participation.

Prior to the elections, the station will broadcast programmes on the electoral process to promote civic education and encourage voter participation.

Female voter turnout is generally thought to be less than the male voter turnout.

In Finland, public authorities published sex disaggregated data and indicators on political participation at all levels, for example voter turnout, candidacies, representatives, committees and indirectly elected organs.

Some 1.35 million of the estimated 1.5 million voter population registered during the voter registration period.

Political participation encompasses a wide range of actions and strategies, including voting, voter education, candidacy for national and local elections and supporting candidates who espouse gender sensitive policies.

Its activities would further include support for the increased participation of women, both as voters and as candidates, and for the further development of a national voter registry.

Each voter has one vote.

Voter turnout was 61 per cent.

Turnout for the parliamentary election was 40 , which puts Poland near the bottom in voter participation among the democratic nations of the world, and about 25 30 below the European average.

Despite efforts led by Crown Prince Abdullah to urge participation, voter registration is low, which suits the government well, as high turnout could lead to the development of an electoral culture.

Often, voter lists were incomplete or inaccurate.

Another concern amongst Moroccan voters is voter turnout.

Voter registration commenced on 20 June in Kinshasa.

Given the conditions, the 60 voter turnout was astonishing.

(c) Voter registration in preparation for the forthcoming elections

The voter turn out was estimated at 47 per cent.

The northern voter base mostly joined the new Republican Party.

Voter chose to vote for Batman instead of Morsi or Shafik.

At 9am, I was the 6th voter in my polling bureau.

When viewed in isolation, the preferences of the average voter that is, a voter in the middle of the income distribution seem to have a strongly positive influence on the government s ultimate response. A policy that the average voter would like is significantly more likely to be enacted.

A voter registration drive took place between 25 June and 21 July.

8. Notes that the 1994 report of the United States Virgin Islands Commission on Status and Federal Relations concluded that, owing to the insufficient level of voter participation, the results of the 1993 referendum were declared legally null and void.

8. Notes that the 1994 report of the United States Virgin Islands Commission on Status and Federal Relations concluded that, owing to the insufficient level of voter participation, the results of the 1993 referendum were declared legally null and void.

Second, and more important, voter attitudes have shifted significantly during the past decade.

Voter turnout was 74.9 per cent, and no serious security incidents were reported.

Preparations were already under way in Tokelau for the referendum, including voter registration.

Notwithstanding delays and immense logistical difficulties, the outcome of voter registration is encouraging.

Political parties should therefore be urged to support such automatic voter registration programmes.

Their apparent motive was to influence a local election by decreasing voter turnout.

The technical and logistical difficulties encountered in the first phase of the elections, including errors in the voter roll, invalid voter registration cards and inadequate transportation to the polling stations, were mostly overcome in the second phase.

The act also created a system of special courts to adjudicate disputes over voter registration.

With voter turnout beating all European records, France s new president will have unusually strong legitimacy.

Indeed, the presidential election degenerated into a crude exercise in ballot rigging and voter intimidation.

The electoral rolls carry photographs of every individual voter, as does each voter s identity card.

Egyptian voter expresses the wish to vote for bellydancer Hayatem instead of the candidates proposed.

The Executive Order No. 15 of 2002 excluded Ahmadis from the country's joint voter roll, requiring they be registered on a supplementary voter roll, and necessitated that Ahmadis must sign a declaration to renounce their faith in Islamic tenets.

Might a reawakening of voter anger be the ticket to rekindling interest in a carbon tax?

Meanwhile, voter registration started in the two provinces on 21 August and has generally proceeded smoothly.

Although some technical difficulties primarily involving voter verification continued to be encountered, improvements were noted in voter education and in the level of cooperation between the Secretariat for the Technical Administration of Elections (STAE), the local authorities and the police.

In California, many taxes were reduced by voter initiatives, demonstrating the damaging consequences of too much democracy.

So how bad was the election? Exit polls suggest that ballot totals fairly closely reflect voter choices.

Voter registration has been progressively extended to the provinces since it started in Kinshasa on 20 June.