Voting: Dismal turnout is a sorry state of affairs

Americans have lost the incentive to vote, thus the comments of my vote doesn’t count.

Most businesses and organizations that are run by a board of trustees have to have a quorum present to conduct business. This quorum is usually in the 60 to 70 percent range. Most government legislative bodies have this requirement.

All of the electoral systems that I have been acquainted with function on a majority (at times a supermajority) of votes cast to pass any measure or elect a candidate. In Pierce County that translates to 12 percent of the voting-age residents electing candidates and passing measures.

I say we treat elections like a corporate board room. If there’s not a quorum of the registered voters casting ballots, the election is void. After the first voided election, people would recognize that their vote did in fact count.

It is a sorry state of affairs that we in the United States cannot take the time to vote, and people in the Middle East travel for days and risk their life to vote.

This story was originally published November 16, 2015 at 1:42 PM with the headline "Voting: Dismal turnout is a sorry state of affairs."