The commission's report stated, "In fact, 10 nonpartisan cities had higher rates of turnout in their most recent elections than New York City".
When mainstream parties are seen as no longer representing mainstream voters (with plummeting rates of turnout, fragmentation within parties, and a weakened presidential office), the returns are highest when you pretend to look like the mainstream that once was: Gaullism.
Black women are among the demographic groups with the highest rates of turnout at the polls, she said.
Meanwhile, on a national level, African Americans at the last presidential election had a higher rate of voter turnout than any other racial group.
If more proof is needed of voter alienation, it is in the declining rate of voter turnout each election year, accompanied by the usual hand-wringing about alienation and cynicism among American voters, for, indeed, voter turnout has been steadily declining both locally and nationally.
Nationally, young people consistently have the lowest rate of voter turnout among different age groups — in 2012, the national voter participation rate for people aged 18 to 29 was 45percentt, according to US census data.
The United States Election Project, which is run by a political science professor at University of Florida, had a more conservative estimate of 111.7 million votes cast, with a turnout rate of 47.4percentthethighestesturnoutut in a midterm election since 1970).
First, are Mississippi and Massachusetts representative of a broader trend: do states covered by Section 5 in fact have higher rates of black turnout on a consistent basis?
Golden Dawn aside, what was noticeable in last night's election was the rate of absence; voter turnout was the lowest in Greece's history.
