WP: Election Turnout in 2004 Was Highest Since 1968

[truthpusher]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10492-2005Jan14.html

Election Turnout in 2004 Was Highest Since 1968

By Brian Faler

Saturday, January 15, 2005; Page A05

The final numbers are in -- and turnout in the 2004 presidential election, it seems, was a bit more impressive than previously believed.

The Committee for the Study of the American Electorate reported yesterday that more than 122 million people voted in the November election, a number that translates into the highest turnout -- 60.7 percent -- since 1968.

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Turnout was 6.4 percent higher than in 2000, the largest uptick in voter participation since the 1952 election. The numbers are a bit higher than the research group's initial estimates, which were based on unofficial tallies and released days after the election.

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The report noted that although turnout reached new heights, more than 78 million Americans who were eligible to vote stayed home on Election Day. The group estimated that Bush won just 30.8 percent of the total eligible voters.

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[Just Me]

1. A "statement". Scares the shit out of the power-mongers,...huh!

They will be as vicious now as they were then. ASSHOLES!!!

[diamond14]

2. almost 40 % of Americans STAYED HOME and did not vote....

what kind of democracy is that????


And because of such lazy people...bush* wins by around 31 % of the voters.....hope the draft drags all those lazy bastards away....

inaction is also a choice....


Voting should be as easy as using a cell phone, computer or an ATM card....and available from ANY LOCATION all across America, for at least a month....

[Wabbajack]

3. That

would make fraud even easier.

[no_to_war_economy]

4. 60.7 percent is the best we can do when

all hell is breaking loose around us,

this nation is truly dumbed down

[countmyvote4real]

5. Quelle surprise! Not. The real surprise is that * got the popular vote.

Of course people turned out. The majority of Americans don’t like the * administration’s policies. He had one of the worst approval ratings for an incumbent President. And a war time incumbent one at that. Plus, it’s a “war” that he needlessly created. Nevermind the exit polls that were not in his favor.

The surprise is that * was “elected” by the voters in the first place. I don’t believe that at all. Then again, this report was based on official (scrubbed) numbers.

I guess I must have imagined that long line of pissed off voters.

[jerryman814]

6. A problem with our voting system...

stems from a problem in our society - lethargy. We spend millions and millions of dollars so we can get people to spend anywhere from 15 minutes to a few hours one ONE DAY a YEAR!!!

In other parts of the world, voting is required with stiff fines and even imprisonment occuring if one doesn't vote. If that kind of system wasn't so prone to corruption, I'd be an advocate of that too. It's sad to see that 40% of Americans don't see the atrocities that result from their indifference to the election process.

[countmyvote4real]

7. There’s “Sad” and then there’s “Bad”

I would gladly accept the outcome from an informed electorate. Unfortunately, that’s almost impossible these days when most folks are informed by domestic corporate MSM. The majority of the 4th estate has folded and compromised itself. Armstrong Williams can’t be the only pundit on the * payroll.

I agree that the percentage of voters is shameful. However, if potential voters are either too busy or too ignorant to vote in their own self-interests, I can’t trust their vote when it comes to my self-interests. I actually wish more idiots didn’t vote.

And I still believe that the majority of Americans that lined up to vote were against this asshole and his phony invasion of Iraq.

[teryang]

8. The highest number of electrons to ever vote

Electronic voting, what a crock of shit. How could any people be so fucking stupid?

[daleo]

9. I wonder how many of these were virtual voters

Cooked up in the voting machines. Regardless of turnout, these people should have been included in the exit polls, so there is still no good explanation for the difference in exit polling and tabulated results. I don't buy the idea that Bush voters refused to talk to exit pollsters, or that these pollsters could magically pick out Kerry voters to bias their results.