[extropy-chat] Enlightenment and the election

[Adrian Tymes]

--- Emlyn <emlynoregan at gmail.com> wrote:
>  Voter turnout in Tuesday's election unlikely to
> have been higher than in 2000 
> Andrea Lynn, Humanities Editor
> University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 
> 
> 11/3/04 
> 
> CHAMPAIGN, Ill. - Despite the widespread assumption
> that voter turnout
> was substantially higher in the 2004 presidential
> election than it was
> in the 2000 election, "the numbers suggest a
> different story," says
> Scott Althaus, a professor of speech communication
> and political
> science at the University of Illinois at
> Urbana-Champaign who conducts
> research on the effects of presidential campaigns.
> 
> etc
> 
>
http://www.infoshop.org/inews/stories.php?story=04/11/04/3548414

Possible flaw:

> According to vote totals as of 10 a.m. CST today,
> ["today" being 11/4/04] between 51 and 52 percent of
> voting-age Americans cast votes in Tuesday's
> presidential election.  In the 2000 presidential
> election, by contrast, 51.2 percent of the
> voting-age population cast ballots, as reported by
> the U.S. Census.

However, quite a few votes - absentees, mostly - are
not tallied until days or weeks later.  Quite possibly
enough to bump it up a few percentage points.