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Voter fatigue

In politics, voter fatigue is the apathy or disinterest that the public can experience when they are required to vote too often.

It is often used as a criticism of the direct democracy system, in which voters are constantly asked to decide on policy via referendums.

Voter fatigue can cause notoriously low voter turnout rates, and supposedly occurs for a variety of reasons: