Various activities using SNS etc. are being carried out in Hirosaki City to call for the vote of the unified local election on April 12.

Aomori Prefecture has been at the lowest level in the national elections, with the lowest voter turnout for the second consecutive year. It is said that there are various causes for the low voter turnout, but in the 2015 unified local elections, different activities can be seen everywhere.

In the same ward, we increased the number of places for early voting, and installed it at Hirosaki University and Hiroro, a shopping mall in front of JR Hirosaki Station. This is the first polling station in a university in the prefecture. On the first day of the early voting day, 107 students voted by early voting.

A 30-year-old woman from an NPO employee who voted early at the polling place in Hiroro said, "I came to the poll because I knew the existence of the polling place on the radio. I am going to vote the person introduced by an acquaintance." A self-employed woman in her 40s said, "Activities to raise the voting rate are wonderful. But I want to hear more about the candidates. I do not know in public relations, I do not know when and where street speeches will be held, if there is a public debate Some pointed out the lack of information.

Makiko Urita, the representative of the student group “Go to the election !!”, who is active in the prefecture, pointed out that “it is difficult to get interested in indifference” and said, “I was not interested in the election either. I was surprised by the fact that Aomori Prefecture has the lowest voter turnout in the whole country, and because I knew that it would be ourselves in the future who would be troubled by a low turnout, I was interested in the election. "

In the Aomori Prefectural Assembly election (announced on April 3) (constant 6 candidates, 9 candidates), the establishment of a smartphone-compatible homepage for the candidates stands out. SNS (Facebook) is also used by 4 out of 9 candidates, and it is inevitable that the younger generation will have more votes. Some candidates were using AR (augmented reality) in election posters to encourage young people to vote.