Less than 8% of registered voters turned out 4/2/19 in Knox Co to vote for mainly city races. Is this a problem and what can fix it?

Newspaper subscriptions have gone down; many folks don’t take the local paper, I do.  Many people do not listen to the radio, I don’t.  How else are people going to hear about upcoming elections?  I didn’t see a sample ballot in the Register-Mail recently; I think sample ballots are helpful for those who do take the newspaper.  Social media is the new way most of the younger generation communicates; they set-up ‘Event pages’, sending invites online, no longer buying invitation cards and stamps.  We need to step-up to the newer forms of communicating.  ‘Word of mouth’ only goes so far about things that people are only vaguely interested in, if at all.   Let’s face it — the majority of people who could vote in any and all elections, don’t seem that interested or well-informed.   And as the Knox County Clerk said, “people are more used to the March and November elections …. the election in April kind of throws people off”.

Trish Forsyth Voss