Boycott != Apathy
Apr. 20th, 2009 10:25 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bcholmesPORT AU PRINCE (AFP) — Haiti's Senate elections were marred by sporadic violence, forcing authorities to cancel polling in parts of the country, as turnout remained low across the impoverised Caribbean nation.
[...]
More than 4.5 million Haitians were eligible to appoint 12 senators out of 78 candidates, although voter apathy prompted a low turnout following years of broken political promises.
— Google News. Emphasis added.
Oh, for fuck's sake. Apathy? Really? That's what you're going with?
You exclude the most popular party in the country on a crazy technicality. And there are calls to have the election boycotted. And when people don't turn up, you decide it's because of apathy?