Voter Turnout

Paper Summary:

This paper corroborates a statistics survey analysis that enumerates the relationship of voter's age with primary election. The author discusses the main reasons for the increased number of older voters as opposed to younger ones. He concludes that older people are more familiarized with voting procedures, have free time to vote and more importantly, have more political power. In addition, the author proposes that baby boomers, race, gender, sex and socio-economic factors also have an influence on voting turnout.

Table of Contents

I. Introduction
II. Literature Review
III. Methods
IV. Results
V. References
VI. Appendix

From the Paper:

"Over the decades, the numbers of election voters have been seen to be on the decline. Although, polls show that there is an increase in the number of voters of the older generation, there is still a decrease in the number of overall voters. Discrepancies especially occur between primary election and general election turnouts.

According to a survey and analysis conducted by the Star Tribune it was indicated, "61 percent of people who voted in Minnesota's 1998 primary election were age 50 or older." [1]Voters 65 and over comprised 17% of the total turnout while that of the general election was 14%. These figures show that older age groups drive a large percentage of primary elections, indicating its importance. There seem to be a variety of reasons for the number of the decreasing voters, which makes it all the more imperative to study its variables which ranges from age, sex, race etc."

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