{"id":988,"date":"2004-11-24T20:53:46","date_gmt":"2004-11-25T00:53:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.test.bradblog.com\/?p=988"},"modified":"2004-11-24T20:53:46","modified_gmt":"2004-11-25T00:53:46","slug":"w-stands-for-wyoming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=988","title":{"rendered":"W Stands for Wyoming!"},"content":{"rendered":"

As proof of how healthy our democracy is, WatchingTheWatchers.org<\/a> has just informed us that Wyoming had a voter turnout rate of 106% this year!<\/p>\n

That’s right, according to the Wyoming Sec. of State’s website<\/a> (go ahead, click on it yourself), out of 232,396 registered voters in the state, 245,789 of them came out to vote this year!<\/p>\n

Yes, go read those numbers above again. That’s 13,393 more votes than voters in Wyoming! And yes, even the Sec. of State’s website brags about the 106% registered voter turnout!<\/p>\n

With national turnout rates somewhere around 60% this year, and only 56% showing up in Wyoming for their 2004 primaries, the state should certainly be proud of their new record turnout! Which beats the previous record in 2000 of 101% turnout!<\/p>\n

Waytago Wyoming! You are “W Country” indeed!<\/p>\n

Nope, nothing funny going on with voting in this<\/i> country. Just worry about Ukraine. We’re fine here. Nothing to see. Move on…<\/i><\/p>\n

UPDATE:<\/b> Eagle-eyed commentor Tracy updates us with a Nov 6th item from Wyoming’s Casper Star-Tribune<\/i><\/a> offering this “explanation”:<\/p>\n

“This was an exciting election day in Wyoming, with many people registering at the polls,” Secretary of State Joe Meyer said Wednesday.
\n…
\n“It is possible to have a voter turnout of more than 100 percent because Wyoming statutes allow voters to register at the polls on election day,” he said.
\n…
\n“Having Wyoming’s Dick Cheney on the ballot has probably driven our high voter turnout the last two presidential elections,” Meyer said.<\/div>\n

So that explains that. For the record, Ohio, which doesn’t have same day registration, but was the most contested state in the union this year had a registered voter-turnout of 69.86%.<\/p>\n

Presuming interest was as high in Wyoming — the reddest of the red states, where Bush won handily — as it was in Ohio, that would mean that some 36% of the total electorate registered on Election Day in Wyoming.<\/p>\n

As I said…keep moving…nothing to see here…these aren’t the droids you’re looking for…<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As proof of how healthy our democracy is, WatchingTheWatchers.org has just informed us that Wyoming had a voter turnout rate of 106% this year! That’s right, according to the Wyoming Sec. of State’s website (go ahead, click on it yourself), out of 232,396 registered voters in the state, 245,789 of them came out to vote […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","bb-type-bradblog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=988"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}