More than two - thirds of the union's membership voted Tuesday, which is one of
the highest turnout rates in its history, Zabinski said.
Because committee members» ballots are weighted according to how many people in their area voted for the Democratic candidate in the most recent gubernatorial election, Upper West Siders wielded outsize influence in the decision process because of vastly
higher turnout rates in their neighborhood — even though it makes up a relatively small portion of the district.
Those close to Mr. Jeffries argue his knack for political strategy is unique: Mr. Jeffries's old Assembly district, for example, always had among
the higher turnout rates in the borough.
Not exact matches
The complaint alleges that out - of - state voters were allowed to vote, and questions the integrity of results from Jefferson County, which is 43 % black and saw a 47 %
turnout rate, which Moore called «highly unusual» — i.e.
higher than expected.
And that's before accounting for some of the factors that the model doesn't consider: the disagreement in the polls, the unusual nature of Trump's candidacy and the demographic changes it is producing, Clinton's superior
turnout operation, the possibility of «shy Trump» voters, the fact that the news cycle is still somewhat fluid headed into the final weekend, the declining response
rates to polls, and the substantial number of
high - profile polling misses around the world over the past few years.
Given typical US voting participation
rate (shy of 60 % even on
high -
turnout Presidential elections, never mind other lower
turnout elections), finding such a person isn't hard.
In 2008, when voter
turnout rates were at or around record
highs, fewer than half (44.9 percent) of adults in households making less than $ 30,000 per year voted, according to Census Bureau data.
And while young people in general tend to vote at lower
rates than the population as a whole, the signs are that student
turnout in 2015 will be
high.
«The
high rate of spoiled ballots and lower
turnout in elections fought under AV should trigger an alarm to those in the Labour movement who care about democracy,» she said.
This
rate is a
higher turnout than the 2010 general election that first put Walker in place as Governor, but not as
high as the 69.2 percent
turnout in the 2008 Presidential election.
This means its
turnout rate will be
higher than in New Jersey which is bad for the Republicans.
And
turnout in Mississippi's majority African - American districts increased at a much
higher rate than overall
turnout.
So, why do some states — like Mississippi, Minnesota, and Wisconsin (which had the
highest voting
rates)-- have
higher voter
turnout?
Twenty years after students participated in the program, John Holbein, a researcher at Princeton and the new study's author, matched Fast Track participants — now adults — to state voter files and found that those in the intervention group voted at a
rate 11 to 14 percentage points
higher than their peers in the control group, a significant boost considering that get - out - the - vote programs typically boost
turnout by only 1 to 4 percentage points.
Yet these sorts of calculations help to show that
high employee
turnout rates can indeed boost the prospects for union victory, even when considerably diluted by the residency problem.
Despite unprecedented efforts to mobilize younger voters for the 2004 presidential election, the
turnout rate in the 18 - 24 age range was still only 45 percent -
higher than in 2000, but nonetheless just at the average through the 1970s and 1980s.
Anyone curious about why Stephen Harper's Conservatives seem so eager to please older voters need only consider the following data from Statistics Canada: In 2011, the voter
turnout rate was about 50 per cent among people aged 18 to 24, a few percentage points
higher among 25 - to 34 - year - olds, but leapt to 70 per cent for 45 - to 54 - year - olds, and crested at a remarkable 82 per cent among potential voters between 65 and 74.
If Trump can rally this segment of the population, one that does not traditionally have
high rates of voter
turnout, perhaps he still has a chance of victory this November, but I hesitate to share his confidence that he will «win easily.»