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Word: voteless (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1924-1924
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...partisan body, whose pure purpose will be to get qualified voters to vote. Simon Michelet, the founder, points out that, in the last Presidential election, for every 100 votes cast there were 194 people of voting age qualified to cast votes. He asserted that the voteless voters have increased in recent years and presented figures to show that of all qualified voters 80% cast ballots in 1896, 73% in 1900, 66% in 1908, 62% in 1912, and that in 1920 only about 50% cast ballots. What is more, he declares that the native-born population are the worst offenders, because...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Voteless Voters | 8/4/1924 | See Source »

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