In my Ontario provincial electoral riding of Peterborough, nearly 50 %
of eligible voters did not vote in the last election.
Half of eligible voters didn't vote and the half that did was divided pretty evenly.
This is not true, given that huge numbers of eligible voters don't have strong opinions on issues and that even people with reasonably well formed views may not flip their vote (even in competitive primaries) based on those views.
Not exact matches
Less than half the state's
eligible voters bother to register, but Mormons almost always
do, which gives them about a quarter
of the likely turnout.»
Meanwhile the breakdown
of community has led to such alienation that a minority
of those
eligible to
voters do not
do so.
This can be
done by way
of a relative majority (more than 50 per cent
of votes cast), an absolute majority (more than 50 per cent
of eligible voters) or some form
of a super-majority (60 per cent or two - thirds majority
of voters).
I would say half
of the
eligible voters who usually
do not vote because they're young.
Still,
voters do approve
of at least one
of Cuomo's proposals: 62 percent support Cuomo's proposal to make teachers
eligible for tenure in five years, rather than three years as it is now.
And nobody else
did, even though upwards
of 33,000 independent
voters were
eligible to write in a name.
Also, there are countries where you don't have to register per se, you are either automatically added to the election roll when you turn 18 or the list
of eligible voters is based on a (mandatory) population register.
The answers should be different as voting machines guarantee some basic details that online voting systems
do not guarantee, as an example you can say that every
voter at a machine has been authentified as being
eligible to vote, something you can not be sure
of with an online voting system.
This probably doesn't surprise many people, but only about 43 percent
of eligible voters turned out for legislative races in Ulster County's 23 county legislative districts in 2013.
The Census Bureau estimates that more than 15 percent
of all
eligible voters had moved in the past year, and three million
eligible voters did not vote in 2000 because problems with their registration.
The mission
of the Washoe County Registrar
of Voters Department is to ensure that each citizen
of Washoe county who is
eligible to register and vote is able to
do so; that Washoe County's Elections are operated with the utmost integrity, transparency, and accountability; and that the department is know for excellence in customer service and the administration
of elections.
The data analytics machine that presidential candidate Hillary Clinton used in her 2016 campaign — named Ada after the 19th - century mathematician and early computing pioneer — used state -
of - the - art segmentation techniques to target groups
of eligible voters in the same way that Barack Obama had
done four years previously.