Four states are assessed in terms of the turnout of voters for these elections with the homeless and voter laws examined in five pages. Five sources are cited in the bibliography with charts for each of the states also provided.
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and 2000 vary. In order to study the differences the states of New York, North Carolina, Ohio and California will be used. Before embarking on the dissemination of
statistics, some things are relevant. One important piece of information is time zone. While California uses Pacific time, the other three states each embrace the Eastern time zone and so
are the first to vote. Another factor is generally New York and California are liberal states whereas the midwest and south boast many conservatives. Yet, in the 2000 election, Bush
and Gore were neck and neck in Ohio, something that might have prompted Ohio residents to register to vote. New York 2000 1998
VAP 13,805,000 13,590,000 Registered 11,262,816 9,553,665 % reg of VAP
81.6 70.3 Turnout 6,960,215
4,989,877 % to of Reg 61.8 N/A % to of P 50.4 36.7
The above chart for New York shows the voting age population between 13 and 14 million for which registered voters are more than 11 million in 2000 ("Voter Registration
and Turnout - 2000" PG). Interestingly, the same figure for 1998 shows that between 1998 and 2000 many more registered to vote ("Voter Registration and Turnout - 1998" PG). In
fact, this is likely attributable to the fact that the 2000 election was very close and quite controversial. Indeed, the percentage of registered voters increased by 10% according to