# voter fatigue (worn)

Members of a collective self reading each new choice of who governs as asking more than it gives, so the more often it comes, the less they act.

- Computed level: L18 (depth in the emergence graph, not abstraction)
- Status: published  ·  Domain: agency

## Emergence
**Emerges from:** [collective self](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-collective-self.shared), [member](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-member.social), [read](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-read.information), [new](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-new.recent), [choice](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-choice.decision), [government](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-government.administrative), [asks](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-asks.social), [give](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-give.transfer), [often](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-often.temporal), [come](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-come.arrive), [act](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-act.deed)

**Through:** Each election asks for attention and action; repeated close together, members read the cost as rising and the reach it gives as falling, and turnout falls with that read.

**Novel properties:**
- consent that thins with repetition
- a reach unused because it is offered too often

## Examples
- Israel held five general elections between April 2019 and November 2022, and voter fatigue was widely discussed in coverage of the later ones. *(politics)*

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*Canonical: https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-voter-fatigue.worn*  
*Structured data: https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-voter-fatigue.worn.json*  
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