Sentence examples for were of voting age from inspiring English sources

Turnout was better than expected but still disappointingly low in the first round, when 11.7 percent of those who were of voting age cast ballots.

Today voters aged 25 to 29, who were of voting age in 2008, prefer Mr Obama in much larger numbers than 18- to 24-year-olds, many of whom were not.But the young also prefer Mr Obama's message.

But that was the first time my daughter was of voting age.

More than three-quarters of the country's homeless people are of voting age.

Demographics: Of the 15.9 million Floridians who are of voting age, 12 million are currently registered to vote.

"The children of the first generation of evangelical leaders are of voting age, and they are questioning old allegiances".

The Facebook team explains that of 45 million active users, a whopping 80% are of voting age.

They are aged 18-22, so are of voting age today but too young to have participated in the last election in 2009.

In coming up with that guideline, the Justice Department had assumed that each race would vote for its own, and that because blacks were less likely than whites to be of voting age, be registered or turn out to vote, a black candidate would need more of a buffer.

Among the reasons the electorate in New York has a higher percentage of whites and a smaller proportion of minorities than the city's population as a whole is that a higher percentage of whites are of voting age and a higher percentage of minorities are not citizens and are thus ineligible to vote.

A senior government official in Ankara said 347,000 Kurds were believed to have moved into the Kirkuk area since the end of the major combat phase of the war in May 2003, of whom 172,000 are presumed to be of voting age.