New Yorkers didn’t make a very strong showing at the polls on Election Day, according to an analysis from the United States Election Project at George Mason University.
The analysis found only 32.1 percent of the 13.4-million eligible voters in New York made their voices heard on November 2nd.
That’s the lowest percentage of any state in the country, which averaged 40.3 percent nationally.
The low total comes despite races for every statewide office, every state Legislature seat, and every congressional seat in New York.
Low turnout is being blamed in part on uncompetitive races, namely for governor and the two United States Senate seats.
(Source: NY1)
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I speculated prior to the election that the Republicans may have had a deliberate strategy of running non-competitive candidates for statewide office in order to depress the turnout and pick off some State Senate and Congressional seats. If that was indeed the strategy, it worked!
Things will be different in 2012; redistricting and higher turnout will almost certainly cost the Republicans at least the State Senate.