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According to national exit polls, turnout among voters 18-24 was at 42.3 percent, up 5.8 percentage points since 2000. This number is likely even higher when college students that voted absentee are included...
...trade liberalization, and to economic muscle without any special political merit. Worst of all, the proposal is so hopelessly lengthy and technical that it is incapable of stimulating the least enthusiasm among European citizens. On February 20, 77 percent of Spaniards approved the treaty by referendum, but the turnout, at 42 percent, was the lowest of any national vote since the death of Franco...
Adjah attributed this year’s lower voter turnout to the fact that only one of the 11 positions voted upon was contested...
...Citizens Association (GACA) in South Florida, deluged Tallahassee with phone calls and e-mails to help win changes like lower teacher-student ratios. At this spring's legislative session, says GACA director Ginger Grossman, they have lobbied for more improvements, backed by the clout of Florida's senior-voter turnout, as high as 75%. "Politicians here still think they don't need to listen to children," says Grossman, 86. "But they do need to listen...
...outset, however, such concerns were forgotten amid a conventioneers' snarl over accommodations. Although Kenya had spent part of its $1.6 million investment to spruce up Nairobi's streets, buildings and dormitories, authorities were unprepared for the huge turnout. In addition to the 3,000 delegates registered for the official conference, some 10,000 arrived for Forum '85. The Forum turnout was more than three times the number expected, and government authorities tried to forestall a crush by announcing that Nairobi's 4,000 hotel rooms would be held for the delegates to the official conference. But the hundreds of Forum...