00:00From Privilege to Right, brought to you by NGC.
00:18Roughly 80% of the national population of 1.4 million, which amounts to 1.1 million people,
00:25are registered to vote, which is a pretty healthy percentage by any standard.
00:30However, this is not to say that everyone who is registered to vote by virtue of having acquired a national identification card,
00:37actually turns out to vote.
00:40Our voting tends to be 65, 68%, sometimes 70, you know, but it doesn't go over that in the last 50, 60 years.
00:49There is that stubborn 30% that we can't seem to break.
00:57Within this constituency of non-voters, one group stands out.
01:01In terms of the demographic, a big portion of that is youth who don't know how to vote.
01:07Every year, about 15,000 to 18,000 newly registered people are added to the voter registration list,
01:14swelling the ranks of the voting young people.
01:17Getting them to exercise their right to vote is a challenge that the election authorities are grappling with.
01:23We have actually now set up a communications subcommittee to actually look at that,
01:29to see how can we expand voter education.
01:32So we are waiting for some recommendations from that that we may want to then rule out.
01:38But as I indicated, I think this is a bigger issue,
01:41and we need to look at ourselves as a society.
01:44Why is it we are not interested in exercising this right, this hard-fought for right?
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