Comments on: Column: Limited Edition http://annarborchronicle.com/2009/03/02/column-limited-edition-5/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=column-limited-edition-5 it's like being there Tue, 16 Sep 2014 04:56:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.2 By: Fred Zimmerman http://annarborchronicle.com/2009/03/02/column-limited-edition-5/comment-page-1/#comment-12188 Fred Zimmerman Tue, 03 Mar 2009 15:04:18 +0000 http://annarborchronicle.com/?p=10805#comment-12188 Just to be a devil’s advocate, is it automatically a good thing that local governments are typically run by the people who show up? Often, that is the people who have the strongest emotional investment and the most free time. That doesn’t necessarily correlate to the good of the many.

It would be simple to change the law to levy stiff fines on those who do not vote. Most other democratic nations have stricter laws on that score than we do. Why not have the run world by all those who are affected by the decisions?

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