LACK OF INTEREST MAIN REASON SOUTH JERSEY VOTERS DIDN’T HIT THE VOTING BOOTH

Registered voters who said they did not plan to vote in Tuesday’s election cited lack of interest in the races as the major reason for not voting, according to an analysis released today by the William J. Hughes Center for Public Policy at Stockton University. Just more than half (51 percent) of non-voting respondents in Stockton polls taken in Legislative Districts 1 and 2 over the past month cited reasons related to the low-interest nature of the election, in which state Assembly was the top race on the ballot. Other reasons given for not voting included negative feelings about the candidates or the political system (20 percent) and being too busy to vote (20 percent).