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Yes, you're understanding is it's a hot commodity and an achievement like no other but what I don't understand is what lead you to that conclusion. Even looking nationwide (not just at a battleground state in a hot election year) over the last 50 years I can't find anything backing your claims https://www.pewresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/FT_17... particularly in the last 20 years. Again I'm curious how you've come to your conclusion not trying to understand what your conclusion was, are we looking at different data? Are you thinking out of eligible population or total population instead of registered population?

Either way voter registration and turnout gets reviewed pretty heavily both before and after each election, I'm just curious what is making you think either is out of the ordinary this year.



Wow — definitely not my state, and looking nationwide when talking about states, and counties, is kinda apples to oranges right?


Well... this is sorta what I'm asking you to tell me about :).

matthewmcg provided numbers that when looking at eligible voter turnout WI hasn't jumped this year and I provided numbers that the ~90% is quite reasonable for registered voter turnout for typical states so that half of the number isn't a surprise either.

What I've been asking you is what information leads you to the claims you're making. If the above information has somehow been apples to oranges then great, then please show me the oranges that lead you to think WI turnout % was anomalous!




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