Ohio Voting Statistics
Jan. 6th, 2005 01:53 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
yesthattomIt takes 5 minutes per person to vote. Therefore, 12 people can vote per voting machine per hour. The voting booths are open about 14 hours in Ohio. That’s 168 people if the machines run non-stop. Considering the bursty nature of when people arrive, 100 people per machine per day is reasonable.
Black neighborhoods with 1000 registered voters and a likely turn-out of 800 people often found themselves with 2 machines, even when they had 5 machines for the primary. That’s nearly 60% that doesn’t have the opportunity to vote. (464 out of 800).
We can not claim to stand for Democracy in other parts of the world as long as states are allowed to disenfranchise voters like this.
Black neighborhoods with 1000 registered voters and a likely turn-out of 800 people often found themselves with 2 machines, even when they had 5 machines for the primary. That’s nearly 60% that doesn’t have the opportunity to vote. (464 out of 800).
We can not claim to stand for Democracy in other parts of the world as long as states are allowed to disenfranchise voters like this.
