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[QUOTE]Originally posted by George Harris: [QB] Not directly related to Joe, but: To me one of the scariest things in our process is the low turnout in local or many "down ballot" offices. Tomorrow is the primary in Mississippi for congressional races. The interest and campaigning has been so low that I had to look up the names for the candidates. This is Mississippi Congressional District One. They are: Democrat: ....Hunter Avery ....Dianne Black Republican: ....Trent Kelley (incumbent) ....Mark D. Strauss They are "expecting a low turnout" In the precinct I work we had over 3,000 voters for the 2020 presidential race, which was about an 85% turnout. The most recent, which was a county judge race, we had 145 voters, in other words, less than 5% turnout. For this one? Who knows? But what it says is that if you can get some group to stealthily pull in over 75 people who would not have otherwise have voted, you can get the election to go the way you want in this precinct. Put it another way, if you can get over about 2.5% of the registered voters who would not have bothered to go your way, you can get the election to go your way, regardless of what the majority of the population would want. It this intended to be a plea for compulsive voting? Absolutely not! That would if anything make things worse as now you are dragging in the clueless who could most easily be swayed. It is a plea for people to wake up and get involved and to know what is really happening before they go to vote. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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