No One Knows Yet How Many Voters Voted

November 10th, 2008

This November 7 New York Times article says that turnout expert Curtis Gans believes between 126,000,000 and 128,500,000 voters voted in this election. But Professor Michael McDonald, another turnout expert, estimates 133,300,000 voters voted.

In 2004, the number of valid votes cast for president was 122,295,345. But in 2000 it was only 105,396,627. It thus seems clear that the 2004 election, not the 2008 election, had the more dramatic increase over the preceding election.

3 Responses to “No One Knows Yet How Many Voters Voted”

  1. Demo Rep Says:
    November 10th, 2008 at 10:49 am

    The STONE AGE election system is NOT even able to report how many voters there are ???

    Just swell.

    Democracy NOW — ONLY PAPER MAIL BALLOTS. See Oregon.

    Perhaps then the postal snail can report how many ballots in an election (valid and invalid).

  2. Jonathan Says:
    November 10th, 2008 at 11:29 am

    It has to be much greater than 2004 judging by early voting.
    http://www.nolanchart.com/article5411.html

  3. Steven R Linnabary Says:
    November 10th, 2008 at 2:57 pm

    I dunno. I saw an article about Ohio’s 2008 voter turnout being less than the turnout for 2004. But I could not find the link. I did find this:

    http://news.google.com/news?client=opera&rls=en&q=low+voter+turnout&sourceid=opera&ie=UTF-8&oe=utf-8&um=1&hl=en&sa=X&oi=news_result&resnum=4&ct=title

    This is typical:
    Low voter turnout in an exciting year puzzles Alaskans:

    http://www.mcclatchydc.com/homepage/story/55542.html

    PEACE
    Steve