As is regularly observed by the tartan twitterati, Scotland has twice as many pandas as Conservative MPs, so Tories popping north to advise the natives on their voting duty are liable to prove counter-productive.
In 1987, 76% of people considered voting a duty; today only 56% do.
Mr. Go said he considered voting "my duty as an American citizen," adding "I have an opinion on the outside world, on who's governor, who's senator, who's president.
University of California, Irvine Professor Russell Dalton argues that this demographic finds more meaning in making political videos, attending an Occupy Wall Street camp, or boycotting companies with Republican ties than performing traditional acts of civic duty, such as voting or jury duty.
When we choose to remain silent about these injustices, or we don't vote, a duty countless people would kill for, we are not performing our central functions as citizens within a democracy.
They write that teens "lack maturity and have an underdeveloped sense of responsibility," and most states already prohibit teenagers from voting, serving jury duty, and marrying.
The Labor Department considers proxy voting a fiduciary duty of pension fund managers under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974.
Worse still, the commission fears that the last two historically low turnouts, combined with younger age groups being much less likely to consider voting a civic duty, suggest the beginning of a cohort effect whereby the non-voting intention is carried forward into later life.
In locations where electronic machines are in use, your vote count observation duties will be complicated.
I'll be a legal adult, which qualifies me to enter the sphere of jury duty, voting and purchasing liquid White-Out.
