Only 43.3 percent of eligible voters in the area exercised their franchise, but that wasn’t much of a surprise.
投票人口中只有43.3%履行了他们的权利，不过这也并不令人意外。
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Permission to distribute or sell a particular brand of goods or services in a specific area. A particular business that has been entitled the right to do so is also called a franchise.