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