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Fredda Weinberg Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-23-06 11:17 PM
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13. This explains the 200% of voters casting ballots
In House Districts 16 – 32 some precincts show more than 100 percent voter turnout. This is because the State of Alaska conducted a special election for the Municipality of Anchorage concurrently with the 2004 General Election. In these districts, there were two ballots, a State ballot and a Municipality ballot. The % Turnout is based on the Cards Cast number. Because each voter could have cast two ballots the turnout in these districts is inflated. In these districts look at the Times Counted number for the US Presidential race to determine the actual number of State ballots cast in each precinct. This number, divided by the number of registered voters will yield the turnout for the precinct:

http://www.ltgov.state.ak.us/elections/04genr/index.shtml
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