Two months after the provincial election, the post-mortems are continuing to roll in. Pollsters have continued to examine how they got the predictions so wrong. Turns out, those happy to give their opinions in polls are not the same people who show up to vote. Go figure.
More disturbingly, as Angus Reid recently made public, voters aren't equal opportunity no-shows. Young people, who are disproportionately more likely to answer online surveys favoured by pollsters, are also far less likely to actually vote.
The news is both ironic and troubling. In some regards, it's easy to see why people 18 to 30 would opt out of 'the system.' They're shut out of the housing market, have high unemployment and have discovered that education leads to student debt, but not necessarily a job.
But they are also a generation more connected than any in the past. On social media, Millennials aren't shy about sharing their opinions or letting the world know what they're up to. But between having an opinion and taking political action, something's still getting lost in translation.
It could be that our political systems - which haven't changed much in decades - could also learn to evolve with the societies they serve. Electronic voting - which comes with its own Pandora's box of issues - is something that will likely be ushered in at some point. That could radically change existing patterns.
In the meantime, Woody Allen's old quote is still true: that 80 per cent of life is showing up. That goes for the ballot box too.
