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大选开始,请行使投票权
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过去的美国大选告诉我们,想要让所有人都行使投票权,不是一件容易的事。
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If past presidential elections are any indication, nearly half of eligible voters will sit 2020 out. Those nonvoters will be too busy, not interested or simply disillusioned. And they mostly won’t be readers of local newspapers.
过去的总统选举表明,近一半的合格选民将在2020年大选中退出投票。那些不投票的人要么太忙,要么不感兴趣,要么只是失望了。并且他们大多不是当地报纸的读者。
For this column, let’s take it as axiomatic that greater voter turnout in a representative democracy is a good thing. The more people participate, the more accurately the results of an election reflects the will of the majority. It’s even better when those voters are knowledgeable about the candidates and the issues.
就本专栏而言,代议民主制中更大的选民投票率是一件好事,这是不言而喻的。更多的人参与,选举所反映绝大多数人意志的结果就更精确。如果这些选民对候选人和存在的问题有个全面的了解,那就更好了。
Alas, the value of voter participation is not so axiomatic in practice. Partisansseek to suppress turnout on the other side and bolster it on their own with all manner of tricks, abuses and