MISSOURI WATCH: UNCARING VOTERS=UNGLUED CANDIDATES

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Sunday, October 18, 1998

Missourians glaringly displayed their indifference to public policy and governance when only 16 percent of the state's eligible voters turned out to cast ballots in the August primary elections. Ignoring both their responsibility as citizens as well as their responsibility to imprint public policy, voters in the state exercised their unconstitutional right to refrain from participating in representative government.

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