Letter: When voting lacks rhyme or reason

Thursday 09 June 1994 00:02 BST

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Sir: We have been commemorating the sacrifice our soldiers made 50 years ago in defence of freedom and democracy in Europe. Is it a sign of how much we value that sacrifice that in the 1989 European elections nearly two-thirds of the UK electorate didn't bother to vote? Perhaps by making the effort on 9 June, we would be proving that all those who died did not do so in vain.

Yours faithfully,

MATTHEW WALL

London, N4

7 June

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