Low Voter Turn-Out For Primaries As Usual

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The Democratic Primary results are in. The big news on the state level was 28-year-old Daniel Squadron’s victory over incumbent State Senator Martin Connor and Ed Towns’ trouncing of challenger Kevin Powell in the 10th Congressional District. The most disappointing aspect of the day for us was the fact that when we went to our polling station at 6:15 last night we were the only person there voting! As it turns out, in many districts in Brooklyn, less than 5,000 people turned up at the polls. So that got us thinking about the Brownstoner readership turnout in general: Is it as apathetic as the general population? If you are a registered Democrat, did you vote? If not, why not?

By Brownstoner |