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Record US Voter Turnout Expected
 Jason Leopold - truth-out.org
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November 02, 2010
The country’s top election turnout expert projects 90 million people will turn out to vote today, shattering the 2006 record for a midterm election when 86 million people went to the polls. That was the year the Democrats gained control of both houses of Congress.
Michael McDonald of George Mason University's United States Election Project said his pre-election prediction is based on early voting data and "early voting and turnout rates for comparable past elections."
| The turnout rate is the number of votes divided by the voting-eligible population. The early vote rate is the number of early votes divided by all votes (NOT the voting-eligible population).
Please note that the national voting-eligible population includes an estimate of 4.9 million eligible overseas military and civilians, but the state numbers do not. Thus, the states' voting-eligible populations do not sum to national voting-eligible population. |
Here's McDonald's breakdown:
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