All posts tagged "voter turnout"

  • Jennifer Um
Flintridge Prep School
11th Grade
    A growing concern for voter turnout in the US

    The turnout in the 2014 midterms was the lowest in any election since 1942. Only 36 percent of the voting-age population bothered to cast a ballot in November 2014. A Pew Research Center report tracked down 181...

    • Posted August 10, 2015
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  • A voter heads to a voting booth with his ballot in hand at Speedway High School, Speedway, Ind., Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2014.  Record-low voter turnout could be the most notable development of the day as California is not faring much better. (AP Photo/Doug McSchooler)
    Voter turnout might reach record low in California

    LOS ANGELES (CNS) – About 18.8 percent of Los Angeles County’s 4,898,031 voters had cast ballots as of 4 p.m. today, the latest figures available, according to the county Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk office. The figures include vote-by-mail ballots, assuming 40...

    • Posted November 4, 2014
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  • More than 23.4 million out of over 41.2 million eligible voters went to polling stations across South Korea, according to the National Election Commission . (Yonhap)
    S. Korea’s preliminary voter turnout highest in 16 years

    SEOUL (Yonhap) — Voter turnout in Wednesday’s South Korean elections reached a provisional 56.8 percent, the highest in 16 years, the nation’s election watchdog said. More than 23.4 million out of over 41.2 million eligible voters went...

    • Posted June 4, 2014
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  • Helen Kim
    Voter turnout well-below previous even-year primaries

    (CNS) Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk Dean Logan reports that voter turnout was 8.86 percent as of 3 p.m., based on random sampling. Logan says that figure is well-below the 12.7 percent of voters who had voted by 3 p.m....

    • Posted June 3, 2014
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