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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMore Low Voter Turnout Elections From Tuesday
38% Washington Special Election February 14, 2017
0.4% Florida Mexico Beach Referendum February 21, 2017
8% Wisconsin Spring Primary February 21, 2017
35% Delaware 10th Senate District Special Election February 25, 2017
18% Connecticut State Senate 2 February 28, 2017
28% Connecticut State Senate 32 February 28, 2017
26% Connecticut State House 115 February 28, 2017
8% Illinois Consolidated Primary February 28, 2017
6% Alabama Jefferson County School Tax Renewal March 7, 2017
11% California City of Los Angeles Mayor Primary March 7, 2017
28% Missouri St Louis Mayor Primary March 7, 2017
12% Oklahoma House District 28 Special Primary March 7, 2017
18% Idaho Special Election March 14, 2017
6% Virginia Bath County, Supervisor - Special Election March 14, 2017
Note that even though Dems won the Delaware seat and got the voter turnout up to (just) 35%, it ended up costing them $100 PER VOTE!
Ridiculous!
If Dems aren't voting even now, we're screwed!
If voters were flooding the polls, politicians would be freaking out.
JHan
(10,173 posts)kacekwl
(7,021 posts)What will it take people ?
Jonny Appleseed
(960 posts)Get some of the bigger (and let's be honest, superficial) protest groups/organizers to blast their facebook pages. Contact celebrities.
Tom the Mechanic
(68 posts)Excellent ideas!
I have a list of celebrities, I have to learn how to tweet I guess.
I was going to mail them letters.
I don't know social media.
What are these bigger and superficial protest groups you speak of?
And how to blast a Facebook page?
(Seriously, I do old school stuff like hand out fliers at rallies and confront lying conservative camera crews)
Wounded Bear
(58,706 posts)also, percentages of what? Are we looking at percentages of the local electorate in those local elections? That would be the assumption, of course, but still.
Tom the Mechanic
(68 posts)The voter turnout % is of eligible voters relative to those that actually do vote.
The voter turnout is the total number of votes cast.
The eligible voter count is up to each state, different states do it differently.
Some use registered voters, others use active voters.
They change slightly as the absentee and provisional ballots get counted.
The local elections are showing percentages of the local electorate, school district, congressional district, city, whatever.
Plus the registration counts are sometimes from the last census.
Some states make the stats easy to find, others like Florida seem to be hiding it.
Do a search for " state or city)voter turnout 2017".
Greybnk48
(10,176 posts)after all we've been through with Walker we're still disengaged.
ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)Let's see what happens in Georgia next month.
Tom the Mechanic
(68 posts)April 2 Registration Deadline
May 2 Primary
May 16 Runoff (if needed)
June 20 Election
Kansas Congressional District 4 James Thompson
April 11 Election
Georgia Congressional District 6 Jon Ossoff
April 18 Primary
June 20 Runoff (if needed)
Montana At-Large Congressional District Rob Quist
May 25 Election