In 2010, Gallup put Republicans ahead by 15 points on the national Congressional ballot, higher than other polling firms, which put Republicans an average of 8 or 9 points ahead.
In 2010, Gallup put Republicans ahead by 15 points on the national Congressional ballot, higher than other polling firms, which put Republicans an average of eight or nine points ahead instead.
Nearly two voters in every three, 64%, nominated the failure of governments to honour their pledges as something that would put them off casting a ballot – higher than any other factor.
E-voting advocate Dan Tokaji, of the American Civil Liberties Union, said paper ballots produced higher rates of under-voting than machines, an assertion repeated by the Columbus Dispatch.
Daniel DeFrancesco, the executive director of the board, said yesterday that he had asked Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani to provide five more optical ballot scanners, higher salaries for the 30,000 ballot workers needed on Election Day, and 218 extra election workers to help the 312 on staff.
Nearly sixty-nine per cent of eligible voters had cast ballots, the highest share since 1993.
In last month's election, more than 50percentt of voters in Chiapas did not cast ballots, the highest abstention rate in the nation.
Preliminary numbers from Chicago's Board of Election Commissioners suggest that nearly 56percentt of eligible voters cast their ballots, the highest that the city has seen since 1986, and well above national averages.
Nearly a third of the 924 voters failed to turn in a ballot, the highest percentage in 20 years.
His narrow defeat in that election -- the last in Palm Beach County before the chaos of Nov. 7 -- raised many of the same issues now confronting the county's embattled canvassing board: demands for a recount, confusion over the ballot, a high number of double votes.
