More than 129K Illinois Voters Skipped Presidential Vote
ICPR Executive Director Sarah Brune was quoted in this article
via Chicago Sun-Times
“More than 129,000 Illinois voters went to the polls but didn’t vote for president in the November election — more than three times the number who took a pass on the top race four years ago, a new study found.
The Illinois Campaign for Political Reform found that out of 5,666,118 total votes cast in Illinois, 129,694 voters didn’t cast a ballot for president. That’s a 135 percent increase from 2008 when 55,138 Illinois voters skipped the presidential vote. In 2012, 37,730 didn’t vote for president.
Sarah Brune, executive director for the non-profit group, said she used data from the U.S. Elections Project and local state election numbers to show the large contrast — which doesn’t quite have an easy explanation.”
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