I just don't understand......

Yesterday was primary voting day and I was up at 5 am and at my poling position by 6am then home about 8:oopm. This is the third time I've worked the polling places and am alway a bit dumbfounded by it all. Our precinct has approximately 500 registered voters....of that amount 49 had voted early and yesterday for 12 hours we had 54 voters. That is less than 20% voters eligible to vote. I think it is fair to say that every single one of those eligible not voting people will be impacted just as much as those that voted by what occurs in government in the future. It seems to me that they ought to be concerned enough about their own future to express their opinions in the rare privilige we have of voting for our leaders. To say I don't understand doesn't even cover my confusion. Of all the voters we had come to vote,I would safely guess that 80 percent of them were 65 years old or older, of which category I am one. Candidates spend thousands of dollars campaigning so I dare say that not being informed elections are occuring is not the issue.....those of us who do vote are relieved to have a break from all the phone calls and TV ads. Of course we still have the general election in November so it isn't over yet...but this election was important just as well, for the winners won possibly only because others didn't vote. Oh well.....it seems it is not for me to know why, but I do grieve over the apathy of so many of our citizens who don't seem to realize that they are an important part of whether we will continue to have a democracy . There is a terrible complacency in our lives not only in our citizenry....but in our values and morals as well. May God have mercy .