While turnout has indeed decreased, the falloff is more illusory than real. Dresner notes that turnout among those reared during the Depression and amid World War II has always been very high, higher than that of any other generation. Turnout among all other generations has been roughly the same over the past twenty or thirty years. The sole exception, he notes, is that there is a very low turnout among young adults who have not been to college. Probably this is exactly what will happen.
Participation is a simple matter of logging on.
There is no trip through the rain to the polling place. No authority-figure inspectors are there to look up your name in the Doomsday Book to verify your status as a legal voter. Internet users may not elect public officials, but they will tell those officials what to do. Indeed, referendum voting over the Internet will likely become as habitual as reading a newspaper or using e-mail. Instantly the voter will see his or her vote counted and can log on to follow the progress of the referendum.