Low Turnout in L.A. Election
If someone told us we couldn’t vote, we would be up in arms. Yet on election day (June 6) I worked at the polls from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. and we had 128 voters out of a precinct of over 650. Truly a disgrace.
On the other hand . . . where do we go wrong? Why doesn’t the electorate get out to vote? Should we have election day on Sunday? Should election day be a special holiday? I don’t know the answers, but it seems to me that there is a terrible waste of time, effort and money to have a turnout of less than 20% in our precinct and less than 10% citywide.
MARJORIE L. SCHWARTZ
Los Angeles
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