tomder55
Nov 10, 2008, 06:56 AM
I don't think all the results are in yet but preliminary #s show that the percentage of voters vs population of voting age was similar to the 2004 .A high turnout by United States standards but not a record turn out.
The Politico reports that between 60.7 percent and 61.7 percent of the 208.3 million eligible voters cast ballots this year, compared with 60.6 percent of those eligible in 2004, according to a voting analysis by American University political scientist Curtis Gans, an authority on voter turnout.
He estimated that between 126.5 million and 128.5 million eligible voters cast ballots this year, versus 122.3 million four years ago. Gans said the gross number of ballots cast in 2008 was the highest ever, even though the percentage was not substantially different from 2004, because there were about 6.5 million more people registered to vote this time around.
That huge voter turnout? Didn't happen - David Paul Kuhn - Politico.com (http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1108/15422.html)