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		Finnucane on Jan 23, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Seattle-area voters to vote by smartphone in distr... > I read low voter turnout as an implicit vote of confidence in the system as a whole. So, then the folks in Sweden and Denmark are voting because they lack confidence in their government, whereas in Estonia and Latvia, all is fine?

dsfyu404ed on Jan 23, 2020 [–]

I can't comment on confidence in the system working well reducing turnout but I suspect that high confidence in the system being so broken voting won't ever fix it reduces turnout.

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