Abstract
A popular pastime among pundits today is lamenting the declining percentage of voters who participate in national elections. In the U.S. presidential election of 1992, only 55.2% of the voting-age population actually voted. This is up from 50.1% in the 1988 election but down from 62.8% in 1960, the high point in voter turnout in the past 50 years. The statistics are even more discouraging for nonpresidential election years: In 1994, a mere 45% of the voting-age population participated in the process. Despite this fact, I was surprised and disappointed to learn that the turnout among eligible voters in American Chemical Society elections is much more dismal. Last year, a mere 25% of those eligible to vote for president-elect did so. This is actually an increase from 1993, when less than 20% of eligible voters participated in the selection of the president-elect. According to polls following national elections, voters say they ...
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