@Cornelius: My appologies. Spam filter was apparently feeling a bit trigger-happy. To tell you the truth, I almost forgot to vote too But fact of the matter is that November last, when Danilo Türk was elected as the new Prez, PM Janša talked about resignation is only to reinforce his position. Today, he doesn’t have to. All he needed to claim victory was a relative majority and he got it.

Forgive me for saying so, but what we saw yesterday (politically speaking) wasn’t a boycott. It was a forefit.

Anyway, what I had to say was this: I drove across Slovenia to be home on referendum Sunday, and then I simply forgot to go vote… But I’m not too fazed about it, either (I’m a rabid voter, otherwise) - there’s no way in hell my “no” would be interpreted as it would have been meant: “Quit jerking around with the ridiculously tiny regions and put a serious proposal with 3 to 6 regions on the table.”

As Igor D. pointed out, it could actually be intepreted as: “I’m unhappy with the (Savinjska-Šaleška) region proposed and would rather see two regions instead.”

Since I’m changing my permanent residence I guess I won’t be as proud of my co-voters in the future

@Disablez: Especially in Central Slovenia, where the question was as long as my… arm

@Igor D: Very much to the point. Although one could claim that - given the experience with municipalities - voters would support even more regions. The turnout would remain problematic, however.

@Sunshine: True that.

For example the question that I had to answer was do I agree that towns Maribor, Miklavz, Ruse, …, and Bistrica form a county. I do not since I do not believe that such a small county would be able to function well. However voting against might well be interpreted that I do not like some of my neighbors in this county - that it is still too large. So I just made a big cross over the question, and my vote will not count.

Since less than 10% voters showed up, it is clear that a better posed question with Slovenia divided in less regions would attract more interest and wider acceptance.

I checked the latest official results (http://www.dvk.gov.si/RefPokrajine2008I/index4.html , Slovene only, I’m afraid), and the turnout is almost 11%, and most regions got confirmed, with the exception of the Central Slovenia region (62% against) and the Coastal and Prekmurje regions (both in the vicinity of 52% against).
While the Central Slovenia region my be a bit of a hard nut to crack - too many voters there to plain out disregard - I expect the government to keep schtum about the poor turnout and start trumpeting the overall success of the referendi.
The oposition will, of course, start screaming bloody murder about the criminally poor price-turnout correlation.