The bottom line of this analysis is that the civic climate in high school has a great
impact on voter turnout at least 15 years following graduation.
There's an enormous amount of demographic
data on voter turnout out there, as well as a massive number of blogs and social - media outlets available for data mining and sentiment analysis.
The first, written last week with Peter Slevin,
focuses on voter turnout operations in Iowa and opens with this nugget about the Obama campaign:
In March, nonpartisan groups Nonprofit VOTE and the U.S. Elections Project published «America Goes to the Polls 2016,» a report
on voter turnout in the most recent presidential election.
The first, written last week with Peter Slevin, focuses
on voter turnout operations in Iowa and opens with this nugget about the Obama campaign: In Sen. Barack...
Holly Teresi and Melissa Michelson authored a paper titled «Wired to Mobilize: The effect of social networking
messages on voter turnout» for the Social Science Journal.
This study compared the effects of both impersonal campaign emails and personal friend - to - friend
emails on voter turnout.
This reflected the positive impact
on voter turnout at these elections (in some places, turnout doubled) and the fact that there was no evidence of an increase in electoral fraud.
I'm not sure if these figures are exact, but recent reports
on voter turnout indicate 80 percent vote in presidential elections, 60 percent in state races in off years, and 40 percent in local elections.
So why does the New York Votes Act tout automatic voter registration as the centerpiece of reform, rather than the single most impactful issue facing New York voters — the very issue that has the biggest
effect on voter turnout?
«The right to vote is arguably one of the most important rights of citizenship in a democratic country, yet a substantial number of U.S. citizens choose not to exercise that right,» states the introduction to the latest report
on voter turnout from the U.S. Census Bureau.
Democrats and Republicans are
focused on voter turnout, particularly among women, young people, African Americans, and Latinos, in closely watched states.
As Will Straw has noted on the Left Foot Forward blog, Professors Alan Gerber and Don Green of Yale University have shown that face - to - face contact has a far greater
impact on voter turnout than either phone calls or mail.
This lack of competition has a negative impact
on voter turnout, and as Greer also points out, it's not limited to New York City.