Word: voters
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...blacks in Mississippi, the summer and fall of 1971 have been the most hopeful months since the high-water mark of the civil rights movement in the mid-'60s. During the years since passage of the Voting Rights Act, voter-registration drives have put 275,000 new black voters on the rolls. In eleven counties, blacks hold voting majorities, and overall they now amount to 28% of the registered electorate. If all blacks of voting age were registered, they would make up 33% of the registered voters in the state. With Charles Evers, brother of slain Civil Rights Leader...
...more than half of East Lansing's 47,500 population, they have been without influence-and thus uninterested-in the town's affairs. Until last summer, that is, when the Michigan Supreme Court ruled that college students could register and vote locally. Spearheaded by an organization named VOTER (Various organizations to expand registration), student and adult volunteers set out to recruit 7,500 new voters this fall. Registration tables were set up on campus and free bus service offered from dorm and off-campus student residences to City Hall on special registration nights. The results were impressive...
...Voter turnout was the largest in Mississippi history, as high as 90% in some counties, but it was by and large the white voters who came to the polls in unprecedented numbers. The Democratic regulars pressed getting out the vote above all other issues. Mississippi Senators James Eastland and John Stennis traveled down from Washington to stump the state with a single message: go to the polls...
Believing Whites. The effect was to swamp black candidates in many places. In the city of Jackson and Hinds County, 71,000 voters went to the polls and Black Lawyer Jack Young won just 13,900 votes. Basic political techniques -voter education, organizing a big turnout on election day-have not yet been mastered by the blacks. Some blacks, Young also believes, voted for his white opponent: "Black folks still believe what white folks say; they don't think they can believe in a black...
...Greek word for pebble is "psephos." In Athens, citizens used to vote by casting pebbles. Consequently, the word "psephology" has come to mean "the study of voter behavior...