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 | | Only about 44.9 percent of the Americans voted in national elections, both presidential and congressional, during the 1990s, according to a survey by the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance, a Stockholm-based organization that analyzes global voter turnout. |
 | | Because registration in the United States is voluntary and "often rather cumbersome," with the responsibility resting on the citizen rather than the government, registration is depressed, Lijphart noted. |
 | | Of the 86 countries labeled democratic by the Freedom House in 1996 that hold their election on one single day, almost half held their latest election on a Sunday, International IDEA reported. |
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