{"id":5160,"date":"2007-10-12T20:00:54","date_gmt":"2007-10-13T03:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=5160"},"modified":"2007-10-15T01:04:24","modified_gmt":"2007-10-15T08:04:24","slug":"daily-voting-news-for-october-12-2007","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=5160","title":{"rendered":"‘Daily Voting News’ For October 12, 2007"},"content":{"rendered":"

Guest Blogged by John Gideon of VotersUnite.org<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n

<\/a>In a press release Project Vote announced the release of a new report, “Representational Bias in the 2006 Electorate.”\u009d The report finds a continuing problem with the U.S. electorate: those who are registered and vote are not representative of the overall U.S. population eligible to vote. The proportion of the U.S. population that registers to vote and that does vote is highly skewed towards whites, the educated and the wealthy. Furthermore, young eligible Americans, particularly young minority males, and those who have recently moved, are disproportionately represented among those who do not participate in the U.S. electorate.<\/p>\n

“This review of the survey data strongly points to the need for civic organizations and government officials (at all levels of government) to continue to expand access to voter registration,”\u009d says Hess. “For their part, governments should view bias in the electorate as a call to embrace voter registration as an affirmative responsibility through better implementation of laws relating to the registration of young, low-income and minority voters.”\u009d …<\/p>\n

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