HAVANA – In a push to get Cuba’s increasingly apathetic populace to vote in Sunday’s legislative elections, the government here is turning to the one place it knows it can reach potential voters — the bakeries where they must stand in line every morning to collect their daily ration of bread rolls.

In the window of practically every panadería in central Havana are leaflets touting the candidates who will be elected regardless of how many votes are cast or for whom. There are 470 candidates in total for 470 seats in the National Assembly. There are no candidates opposing those in the Communist Party, and campaigning is illegal, which might explain why, when a visitor asks the average Cuban on the street about the elections, the most common response is a dismissive huff and a flip of the wrist.