According to the traditional understanding of the concept, voter fatigue arises when citizens are asked to vote frequently or fill out lengthy ballots.
[7][8] The index doesn't include other challenges like voter roll purges[9] or such if signature verification standards are so strict that they throw out many more valid votes than invalid ones, with some states requiring residents to 'cure' their ballots by re-signing.
[10][11][12] Some of the methods proposed to combat voter fatigue include: In the run-up to the 2019 UK General Election, it was suggested by some media outlets that the electorate might be altered by abstention from voter fatigue from the third General Election in little over 4 years, having seen one in 2015 and the snap election of 2017, either side of the 2016 EU Membership Referendum.
[18] In Israel, five snap elections from 2019-2022 has led to concerns about voter fatigue.
[19] Amid the 2021–present Bulgarian political crisis, reports by the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe,[20] Balkan Insight,[21] and Euronews[22] described the voter fatigue faced by Bulgarian voters having to vote six times in three years.