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...Great Grape Referendum had a voter turnout of about 50 percent, or 3,166 students, while the Undergraduate Council elections held in 1996 brought only 43 percent...
...year tried all mail-in ballots for the first time. Voters could send in their ballots anytime up to the Friday before Election Day; after that the ballots had to be brought personally to election centers or designated drop-off sites. The mail-in system helped boost Oregon's turnout to 63% of the state's eligible voters, in contrast to a 51% turnout nationally. But a hefty 44% of those ballots were deposited in person on Monday and Tuesday alone. The result was crowding at election offices like the one in Portland's Multnomah County, where the line...
Just look at the numbers, especially in the all-important swing states. In Florida, the most crucial of them all, black votes constituted 15% of the turnout, up from 10% in 1996, even though they make up only 13% of the state's voting-age population. In Missouri, black turnout rose from 5% of the total turnout in the last election to 12%--not enough to keep the state out of Bush's column but assuring the election of the late Democratic Senate candidate Mel Carnahan (his widow will serve his term). Blacks in Tennessee, says political scientist David Bositis...
...dead guy named Manuel Yip, who, it turned out, had been voting regularly from the afterlife. Further investigation revealed some 17,000 deceased persons on state voting rolls. (Note to Tim Russert: of the two presidential contenders, Bush stands to gain the most from a high Florida turnout of dead and fictitious voters, as they tend to be Republican...
...group organized for only this event and was not affiliated with any political party. Organizers said they were pleased at the turnout among what they described as a generally apolitical graduate student community...