REPORT CARD
REPORT CARD Absentee Ballots NON-VOTER STUDY, 1985-1986 Committee for the Study of the American Electorate, 421 New Jersey Ave. SE, Washington, D.C. 20003. 5 pp. plus charts. $2.50. Nonvoters...
...Peace Education, Inc., provides those facts to antinuclear activists in Connecticut...
...No great surprise, but the facts are all here...
...The decline in turnout comes at a time of increased voter registration, highly competitive races, and a more educated population—all factors that could be expected to increase turnout...
...And with this eleventh edition, the report adds a new section called "Priorities USA," which is especially trenchant...
...It notes that the United States is first among 142 countries in arms exports, military expenditures, military technology, military bases worldwide, naval fleet, nuclear reactors, nuclear warheads and bombs, yet ranks number four in literacy rate, ten in public-education and public-health expenditures per capita, seventeen in infant-mortality rate, and twenty-two in population per physician...
...4 pp...
...To the economic costs Sivard adds "the costs of human needs not met, of retarded and distorted economic growth, of lost opportunities for international cooperation...
...50 cents...
...It calculates that the nations of the world now spend nearly $900 billion a year on armaments, and it shows how such deadly expenditures not only endanger the survival of the globe but impoverish it in the process...
...And that poses serious problems for the health of the American polity...
...At a glance, the map depicts a heavy concentration of nuclear facilities in the southeastern portion of the state around Stamford and Greenwich...
...That's something to chew on...
...Connecticut Campaign for a U.S.-U.S.S.R...
...Good organizers bring global issues down to the local level, and the more facts they have at their disposal, the more successful their efforts tend to be...
...An eight-and-a-half-by-eleven map of the state gives the location of nuclear-weapons contractors, and on the flip side a guide details the companies that build the nuclear war machine and the parts they produce...
...If you read the results of this election correctly, the score would be Nonvoters 62.7 per cent...
...5.00...
...Nuclear Arms Freeze, 55 Van Dyke Ave., Hartford, CT 06106...
...Republicans 17 per cent...
...Nonvoters won the November elections...
...The only possible explanation," says Gans, "is that a larger and larger segment of the electorate is growing disenchanted with the conduct of American politics and disinterested in participation...
...Arms and the Map NUCLEAR CONNECTICUT by Peace Education, Inc...
...Only 37.3 per cent of the voting-age population cast their ballots, down from the 41.1 per cent in 1982...
...If you want a handy, succinct guide to the plight of the planet, pick up this report...
...National turnout dropped to its lowest level since 1942, and outside the thirteen Southern states turnout was the lowest in American history, says this report by the ten-year-old Committee for the Study of the American Electorate...
...Armed to the Gums WORLD MILITARY AND SOCIAL EXPENDITURES, 1986 by Ruth Leger Sivard World Priorities, Box 25140, Washington, D.C...
...Democrats 18.9 per cent...
...Behind the facade of defense, the arms race contributes to social unrest, limits political freedom, and fosters alienation and upheaval," author Ruth Leger Sivard says...
...20007...
...Nobody can take pride in this election," Curtis B. Gans, the Committee's director, says in the report...
...52 pp...
...Peace Education, Inc., supplies similar maps showing Connecticut's space-weapons systems and conventional-arms makers...
Vol. 51 • January 1987 • No. 1
