Boston's voter turnout plummeted to its lowest level in more than two decades yesterday, especially in the city's predominantly nonwhite neighborhoods, a tide of apathy that swept the City Council's only Latino member, Felix Arroyo, out of office.
Did anyone know there was an election? I did, but I still didn't go, I was working... The Globe tried tried to explain these sad numbers:
Reversing a trend of increasing voting by minority groups set over the last five years, turnout was especially low in nonwhite communities and disproportionately strong in traditionally white, Irish enclaves of South Boston, West Roxbury, and Dorchester. The shift propelled West Roxbury lawyer John Connolly onto the council, replacing Arroyo.
"There's a lot of lonely poll workers out there," Boston Election Commissioner Geraldine Cuddyer said. "It's very, very sad."
SO HERE'S AN IDEA: Why don't you pay people to vote???? There is so much freakin' money wasted on campaigns, why don't they put some of that toward paying people to vote? Here's a site that promotes this idea. It might seem wacky, and I'm sure illegal, but its an interesting concept, considering how apathetic people are these days.
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