Article source for : 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:
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|*Precinct*|*Votes*|*Levy*|*Against*|*For*|*How Many Didn't Vote*|*Percentage Who Didn'tVote*|
|Tol 6K|44|COSI 14|11|28|5|11.38%||
|Tol 13G|46|COSI 14|13|28|5|10.87%||
|Tol 8D|56|COSI 14|18|32|6|10.71%||
|Tol 13L|118|COSI 14|36|71|11|9.32%||
|Tol 13B|54|COSI 14|16|33|5|9.26%||
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