A nonvoter, she said politicians should leave her alone.

Or a nonvoter, like Mark St. John.

"No more the taunts of men, the bile of females, nor the scorn that civic merit from the nonvoter takes," Winchester continued.

Election Day: Take a Nonvoter to Lunch--and to Vote!

"You don't want a clash of religions," said Cardinal Avery Dulles, a theology professor at Fordham University and a nonvoter.

"Daley has created a third party in Chicago, the nonvoter," said William J. Grimshaw, a political scientist at the Illinois Institute of Technology.

But putting a registration form and a pen under the nose of a nonvoter is a lot easier than getting them to bestir themselves to trudge off to the polls on Election Day.

Doherty has said that he is a "principled nonvoter" who has "been saved the embarrassment of ever having to feel any sense of responsibility, of even the smallest size, for the actions of any politician."

It seems unfortunate that the novel, like a complacent nonvoter, never mentions a national or even local event (except for a tornado, which serves exclusively to highlight various family relationships) and pays no attention to anyone outside the family's immediate purview.

Adoption by New York of permanent registation in 1967, postcard registration in 1975 and a four-year, rather than two-year, grace period before a nonvoter is removed from the register in 1981 were all intended to increase voter participation.

Bill James, who never met a baseball statistic he didn't like, views the Hall of Fame so passionately from his position as a nonvoter that he has written a book about its history, its politics, its elections and its faults.