Wednesday, April 30, 2014
Voter Turnout @ WL?
One comment yesterday (Anon 9:27PM) asked a question regarding voter turnout in WL. The Platte County Board of Elections recently posted the results. The results show the final tally to be 37.2% of all registered voters in WL voted in the last election. How does that compare to the rest of Platte County? The average turnout in Platte county was 12.99%, so WL was #1 in % turnout, substantially above the county average...however, the turnout in WL was lower this time around compared to the last two contested mayoral elections in WL. This was in spite of the fact that there was a tax levy issue that I would have thought might spur more WL residents to vote.
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In case someone is curious, the 566 vote total this election is about 300 votes less than the last contested mayoral race...a big difference in my view.
maybe it is time to start filming the city meetings and put them on the web site, might get people more involved?
3:10, Agreed. Both the WLIC's and the City's Meetings should be streamed in this day and age to provide both accountability / transparency & accessibility thus allowing others to take an active part in our community... it is after all 2014 and most of us could aaccess something like go to meeting from our smart phone or tablet. Perhaps the recordings should be archived via Youtube to allow citizens and officials to reference them from virtually anywhere, anytime. That will happen?. Bet if an idea like that was brought up the guns would be a blazin'... lol.
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