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S U B S C R I B E
Tuesday, 19 June, 2012
Are the Swiss afflicted with voter fatigue?
On Sunday voters rejected all three items on the national ballot by massive margins. But the big winner that day was abstention. Sixty-two percent of voters stayed away from the polls. And three-quarters of those who did bother to vote rejected an initiative to put many foreign treaties up for a mandatory referendum. In other words, they voted overwhelmingly against having to vote even more. We couldn’t help but wonder if that and the low turnout aren’t signs of voter fatigue. WRS’s Jordan Davis called up political scientist Georg Lutz:
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