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There is a big difference in the Danes' desire to vote: See how many people vote in your municipality | Defense reservation | DR Municipality lures voters in the ballot box with reminder text messages and kindergarten campaigns. Should it be abolished or retained? Depending on where you live, there will be marked differences in how many actually leave and get a vote. This is shown by the experiences from the last many polls and elections. If we look, for example, at the most recent elections in 2019, there was a total of 23.6 differences at the top and bottom. In Allerød Municipality, 78.5 percent of the voters voted, while only a little over half of the voters, 54.9 percent, turned out and voted in Lolland. The same goes again in several of the other elections to, parliament and or. are some very clear patterns in who votes and who does not vote, says Derek Beach, who is a professor of political science at Aarhus University and is an expert in referendums and voter behavior. According to him, things like the individual voter's education, income level and political interest play a big role. - Those who do not vote will usually be people with a little lower education, they are usually not very politically interested, and they may have very little trust in the political authorities, he says.- The top scorers are what can be called the nicer bourgeoisie. These are people with high and high educations. It is typically some slightly older voters who think it is a civic duty to vote. It is very important when many Danes choose to drop the votes, says Derek Beach. - When we have to see if this actually represents the Danes, it requires , that everyone gives their voice. The country's municipalities play a major role in the conduct of the election. For example, they need to designate polling stations and find people to count votes. However, some municipalities also go further than that and have given priority to making efforts that will draw more voters into. In Silkeborg - where 69.5 percent of voters voted in the last election - for example, the municipality sends text messages with a reminder that vote out to 42,000 and run voting campaigns in the day care institutions to get the parents to take the children down to vote, so that the next generations get in with the mother's milk. - We want there to be many who show up and make use of their democratic law. In order for us to get as many as possible for it, we do information work, and I think it is really important that municipalities do, says 1st Deputy Mayor Johan Brødsgaard (R) about the initiatives. Conversely, there are no plans to spend extra money on targeted efforts to attract voters to Vesthimmerland Municipality, where only 59.8 percent of voters voted in 2019. - We have one election, we prioritize, and that is. This is where we put our money. But that does not mean that we do not do everything we can to increase - it just does not happen with financial means such as cinema spots and, says the municipality's press officer Mike Bunde. In Lolland Municipality, Henrik Madsen, deputy head of Strategy and Politics, explains the There are many who have a short education, and many socially disadvantaged people who have to vote less, and we also have many older people who, in relation to these European elections, find it difficult to take position. We can not change that, he says. At the same time, he explains that the municipality has previously tried with more to increase by, among other things, municipal and regional council elections. For example, by sending election buses around the municipality to collect. , how much you think you can actually move, he says. The municipalities' efforts can actually move something, assesses Derek Beach. Especially when the municipalities make it easy for voters to vote - it shows, among other things, research from the USA: - Both this with reminding people of it, but also making it easier to vote, it increases. Immediately there could also be a need for extra efforts to get more people to vote in elections like this. Because with the -related elections are generally low in relation to and especially .It is because, according to Derek Beach, the voters perceive them as more technical and not so close to the citizen. The professor also does not expect June 1 to reach the same level as, for example, the most recent, where 84.6 percent of voters voted. hope. But we probably will not reach 86 percent as we saw, for example, in the euro referendum in 2000. In the video below, you can learn more about what the defense reservation is about - and get the story behind it. Just click play.