What Is Happening When People Go To Polls and Don't Vote?

I have spent a lot of time in the last week compiling information from the preliminary results of the last county-wide election. I began to notice something. The "Times Counted" was usually higher than the votes "for" or "against" COSI 14 (this also shows up in the other levies, but I didn't think the effect was as dramatic). So I took the time to write down the
"times counted", registered voters, precinct, "against" and "for". I then put these into a database using Microsoft Access, and generated a few reports. This one "Voters Grouped by Towns" I used to generate two calculate fields: "How Many Didn't Vote" (Votes-For-Against), and "Percentage Who Didn't Vote In COSI Levy" (Votes-For-Against/Votes). The five "top" precincts that had the largest percentage of voters that didn't vote either way on COSI were:

PrecinctVotesLevyAgainstForHow Many Didn't VotePercentage Who Didn'tVote
Tol 6K44COSI 141128511.38%
Tol 13G46COSI 141328510.87%
Tol 8D56COSI 141832610.71%
Tol 13L118COSI 143671119.32%
Tol 13B54COSI 14163359.26%


created by oldsendbrdy on Nov 25, 2007 at 01:54:30 pm
updated by oldsendbrdy on Nov 25, 2007 at 02:31:17 pm

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