Tuesday, April 15, 2008

Italy Election Turnout Puts USA to Shame

The ANNOTICO Report

 

As another Distorted View of Italy, (Ignorance or Intentional,) the International Media has characterized the Italian voters as being paralyzed by indifference and malaise.

 

Interestingly, the turnout for this most recent national election in Italy was 80.4 %   !!!!!!!  This was in a DULL election !!!!

 

The turnout in the US national elections in 2000 was 51.31%, and in 2004 was 56.69%

 

 

ITALIAN ELECTIONS: AMATO, HIGH TURNOUT, MORE THAN 80 PCT

"The turnout was over 80 pct. To be precise, it was 80.4 pct which is three and a half percent less that the last elections.

 

It is a high turnout, much higher than the average turn out in general election". The Italian Home Office Minister, Giuliano Amato went to the press conference room at the Senate "excusing himself" in from of the journalists because of the delay in the definitive statistics on the election and the figures showing turnout of voters,"We had to wait for a few definitive figures regarding five large cities which were Milan, Florence, Rome, Naples and Palermo.

 

Considering the number of voters who turned up, it was wiser to wait". (at the statistics concerning only two polling areas are missing of a possible 8.101). For Amato, that 80 pct turnout would be considered "a symbolic piece of information, a bit like the price of consumer goods. There are regions in which turnout was lower, in well-known regions for low turnout such as Liguria and Sardegna. There are also regions which have individual situations such as Campania in which turnout was a little less than 80 pct. But in Naples, for example, there was a turnout much lower than in the other municipalities.

 

In Tuscany there was a 3.5 pct less turnout, but the a turnout in Lucca was a little lower than in the other cities: in any case, the information will be examined with attention in order to avoid simplistic political opinions and rough political interpretations about who where turnout was less. The phenomenon will be studied with scrutiny.

 

 If I simplified this I could make the assumption that the electors expect to vote every 5 years and instead we have forced them to vote after two: this could be one of the reasons which forced many people to go to the voting booths".

http://www.italy-news.net/articoli/eng/articolo_01.php3

 

 

 

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