well seems to me the one of the reasons that people don't go out to vote is maybe they're bored with the whole election process
well i agree with the boredom of the election process but i also uh think that people don't realize that their boat vote will make a difference uh they feel like that
you know it's going to go however it's going to go and their one little vote's not going to make that much difference and it's just why make the effort
well sometimes strangely enough one vote has made the difference
well i agree with that and i and i do know that you you know all those votes are counted and and they do make a difference
um also i think that
people have a tendency to to vote in the larger elections and not vote in the
the more local elections
well it's kind of strange because in the local elections is the ones that have the most influence on their day-to-day lives
exactly
exactly and uh i i even have a tendency to do that myself and i have to really make a concerted effort to to get involved i lived i live in a suburb in Mesquite
and uh so i really have to make an effort to read the local paper and to see what's going to because that directly affects me but i i think on the whole most people don't
uh feel that way or don't even look even look at that i think they just don't even
i i don't think they're conscious of it
well main part of the problem is they don't they think they have enough choices
well that may be true too i hadn't thought of that
you know in some of the European countries they have numbers of parties that run and then lot of more voters come out to vote than vote in this country
um-hum
right
and sometimes it's uh
well not sometimes but many times it's who has the most money to spend on the largest campaign and
and issues get uh bogged down
well maybe it's a matter of you know voter awareness
um i think voter awareness i worked i did some work for the uh Women's League of uh
Voters uh several years ago
and i think there are some organizations that used to uh do some voter awareness uh things don't they don't get a lot of participation they don't get a lot of uh
activity most of the League of Women Voters
what they did was they put out information
so that it it would just be made available to everyone now other areas that i've worked in like in the chambers they would just have the candidates come and it would just you know that was not a lot lot of community involvement and those were people that would mostly vote anyway
well i think part of the problem is the election goes on way too long in Britain you know they have a set period of time and and for campaign that's it in this country it seems like it's a continuous ongoing campaign
it's a it's an ongoing campaign and it's expensive campaign and it it uh eliminates a lot of qualified people
uh maybe more qualified and uh more dedicated
uh
uh to the issues
well the they don't want to spend the time or they don't have the money
exactly
exactly and it it
i i can't believe i just can't believe i've i've worked in a couple of local campaigns
i just cannot believe the dollars that are spent just even locally
well it's a matter of name recognition people aren't going to vote for someone they've never heard of
oh well i agree with that
but also and i and i'm not for
controlling controlling how much is spent but do you know
that's one thing if a if the time wasn't so
if it wasn't such a long uh campaigning time
then
they couldn't spend as much money
and even debates don't seem to help much
no they really don't
uh it's always it's a lot of it is who looks the best
who uh
who happens to say the right thing at the right time who not not it who may not be
the most qualified and can get the uh the job done
so we're really voting for the best makeup person and the best handlers
exactly
and it's a it's a lot i've worked in public relations a lot and
uh
that kind of thing can make and break make or break you as you can
remember uh Clayton Williams'
campaign
well that was certainly a media event
it really was and it's just uh
uh he possibly could have uh won that election had it not been for some of the
the uh the way he presented himself
well he had a classic case of hoof in mouth disease
hoof is is i guess the right term for him
