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...It would be kind of interesting if the amount of people voting plummeted so much so that it removed almost any sense of considering the results legitimate and representative of the populace whatsoever. So far as I'm aware I don't know of any democracies that have a sort of minimal threshold explicitly set to account for and address such a situation...They all seem to presume sufficient civic participation and confidence in their institutions that their citizens wouldn't simply not participate/vote en masse.
I think part of the reasoning for that being that if things have gotten that bad, surely the citizenry wouldn't simply not vote, they'd actively be overthrowing the institutions they had lost confidence in.
The fact people are in this thread discussing the merits of voting should indicate to the mods why this is an ill-conceived rule.
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