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Tom the Mechanic

(68 posts)
Wed Mar 15, 2017, 07:31 PM Mar 2017

More Low Voter Turnout Elections Yesterday

Here's what I have so far;

0.4% Florida Mexico Beach Referendum February 21, 2017
8% Wisconsin Spring Primary February 21, 2017
8% Illinois Consolidated Primary February 28, 2017
6% Alabama Jefferson County School Tax Renewal March 7, 2017
11% California City of Los Angeles Mayor Primary March 7, 2017
28% Missouri St Louis Mayor Primary March 7, 2017
12% Oklahoma House District 28 Special Primary March 7, 2017
18% Idaho Special Election March 14, 2017
6% Virginia Bath County, Supervisor - Special Election March 14, 2017

I'll post more as I find them.

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More Low Voter Turnout Elections Yesterday (Original Post) Tom the Mechanic Mar 2017 OP
Those are pathetic numbers. chowder66 Mar 2017 #1
Are any of these Demo vs Repub? Seems like a lot of primaries. LAS14 Mar 2017 #2
We lost a seat in Minnesota Tom the Mechanic Mar 2017 #3
We had a 12% turnout here in LA last week. Down from 16% in 2013 after that Presidential election. TeamPooka Mar 2017 #4
Delaware cost $100 per vote! Tom the Mechanic Mar 2017 #5

chowder66

(9,045 posts)
1. Those are pathetic numbers.
Wed Mar 15, 2017, 11:22 PM
Mar 2017

This should be tweeted. I'll bookmark to figure out how to do this over the weekend.

Thank you for posting this!

Tom the Mechanic

(68 posts)
3. We lost a seat in Minnesota
Thu Mar 16, 2017, 01:40 AM
Mar 2017

We lost it by just 6 points.

Voter turnout is terrible. Protesters aren't voting.

Samantha Bee just did a piece on it tonight.

We could be replacing the congress right now if Dems would just vote!

Here are some upcoming important races, along with the Dem in the race.

South Carolina Congressional District 5 Archie Parnell
April 2 Registration Deadline
May 2 Primary
May 16 Runoff (if needed)
June 20 Election

Kansas Congressional District 4 James Thompson
April 11 Election

Georgia Congressional District 6 Jon Ossoff
April 18 Primary
June 20 Runoff (if needed)

Montana At-Large Congressional District Rob Quist
May 25 Election

Any ideas on how to contact Dem voters or protesters in those states?
Meetup.com?

TeamPooka

(24,198 posts)
4. We had a 12% turnout here in LA last week. Down from 16% in 2013 after that Presidential election.
Thu Mar 16, 2017, 02:29 AM
Mar 2017

big sadness here in the heart of "liberalism"

Tom the Mechanic

(68 posts)
5. Delaware cost $100 per vote!
Thu Mar 16, 2017, 02:51 AM
Mar 2017

We won the Delaware 10th Senate seat, but it ended up costing $100 per vote just to get a 35% voter turnout!

That's ridiculous!

If people were flooding all these small elections, politicians would be freaking out.

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