Voter Turnout
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Voter turnout should be lower on days with inclement weather because people are reluctant to go out in the rain to vote. However, this may not be the case, and indeed this may not be an issue which can be determined with any certainty, given the number of variables involved. Very few studies deal with the issue, though the public and the press seem to believe that bad weather means low voter turnout. Voter turnout has been declining for some time. Turnout seems best for presidential elections, which might be expected because of the higher level of interest in that election over off-year elections, state and local elections, and special elections. Presidential elections are analyzed and debated for a long time before election day and are also accompanied by huge expenditures on advertising and other actions to generate interest. Most of the belief that rain depresses voter turnout derives from anecdotal evidence rather than serious studies of the issue. Newspapers often cite the weather as a reason for low voter turnout, as in a story from Detroit in October, 1997: In the last 30 years, only one other Detroit election a 1984 primary showed as poor a turnout as last month's 17.4 percent. Rainy weather, a lack of controversy, and a lopsided mayoral race kept voters home, Detroit pollster Jack Moore said (Gerritt A1). Election officials often assume that the weather will have an effect because they have been convinced by refer
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ace more emphasis on winning elections than on ideological purity, dictating that they stay close to the political center of the electorate" (LeLoup, 203). Much of the opposition to the Motor Voter bill seems to have derived from a concern that it would give political advantage to the opposite party, and this can be seen in some of the amendments offered as well. Republican Sen. McCain would have banned registration at agencies providing benefits to the needy, such as welfare and unemployment offices, stating that the poor might believe they had to register to pick up their benefits (Sammon 1443). In addition, of course, some perceive that those on welfare rolls are more likely to register as Democrats than as Republicans.
The vote in the Senate was taken on May 20, 1992. The Senate passed the legislation by a vote of 61 to 38. Republicans had opposed the legislation for years on the bases that it would lead to fraud and that it would cost the states too much to implement. The vote indicated this opposition. Only six Republicans voted for the bill, and only one Democrat voted against the bill. Of the six Republicans voting for the bill, several were known as either liberals or moderates--Mark O. Hatfield of Oregon was co
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