Voter Turnout Essay

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Voter Turnout Everywhere there is an election, there is always going to be voters. Where there are voters, there has to be a measurement of how many actually voted from the population. This is called voter turnout. Instead, of the measurement coming from the whole population it comes from the people that can vote in that state or country. The U.S. has a much lower voter turnout than that of other countries. Texas’s voter turnout is even lower than the United States’. There are many reasons why the Texas voter turnout is low, but there is also ways to fix the voter turnout rate in Texas. “Turnout is reported by comparing the number of votes cast to either the total adult population of a state, or to its population of adult U.S. citizens” (Lind, Ian. "Measuring Voter Turnout: An Inconsistent Science." Honolulu Civil Beat. N.p., n.d. Web. 07 May 2014.). This means that anyone that is eligible to vote is compared to the number of actual votes cast. In the United States it would be the total number of votes cast compared to the number of eligible adults that are U.S. citizens. This mean...

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