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Voter Turnover Case Study

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1) Although a voter is registered as with "no party affiliation" in Florida, they would be ineligible to vote for Bernie Sanders in the Florida Presidential Preference Primary. Due to Florida being a closed primary state, meaning anyone who wants to participate needs to be registered in a political party, would need to either register or switch on February 16 deadline. The Presidential Preference Primary is on March 16th and due to Bernie Sanders having the party affiliation of Democrats, the "no party affiliation" preference would have to be changed to Democrat affiliation on the 16th of February to be eligible to cast his vote for Sanders.

2) The party that has the greatest number of registered voters appears to be the Democratic Party. According to the Florida Division of Elections website, from the year 1972 to 2016, the total number of active registered in the State of Florida reflects the Democrat having the highest number of active voters in comparison to Republican and Other party affiliations. The Voter Registration totals also reflects the Republican Party being more competitive since 1972. Due to the period of dealignment in American history, the dominance by any one political party appeared to …show more content…

Based on these patterns, I predict the 2018 voter turnout will possibly decrease due to the consistencies in data. Although historically that may be the case, the 2018 midterm elections will be extremely important due to all 435 seats in the United States House of Representatives and 33 of the 100 seats in the United States Senate, will be contested. Democrats are in the best position they have been in since 2010, to win a majority of seats, in the House of Representatives. With that being the case, I believe the voter turnout should be higher than the existing data

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