October 30, 1998

Will Low Turnout This November Lead to Impeachment?

By EVERETT CARLL LADD

As Ivor Crewe, a political scientist at the University of Essex, has shown, people in the United States go to the polls more frequently than do citizens of any other democracy. Americans have to trek to the voting booth for separate local, state, and national elections -- both for primaries and for general elections. The United States is almost alone in having primary elections. And we have vastly more state and

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