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President's Message (Jim Koshi) Voter Service Board Highlights 94 National Convention Report (Sue Irvine) Why Don't We Vote? United Nations LWVHI Program, 1993-1995 Health Care Reform (Elizabeth Adams) Politics in '94 Population - A Problem Everywhere Law of the Sea Cable Access Recycling in Hawaii Global Warming Writing a Congressperson Citizen's Guide to National Voter Registration 75th Anniversary

Why Don't We Vote? When voting in the U.S. is compared with other countries, we place almost last, with an average over ten years of only 53 percent of eligible voters participating. From 1952 until 1960 voter participation here was 64 percent, slowly declining until it reached a low of 50 percent in 1983, but reviving somewhat in 1992. Arkansas Voter, Summer 1994

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