High turnout expected in US presidential election
3/11/2008 16:26
Nearly 65 percent of eligible US voters could turn out to vote on the
Election Day, the highest turnout since 1960, according to a report released
yesterday.
The Center for the Study of the American Electorate at the
American University, also predicts in the report that 153.1 million of the
country's eligible citizens are now registered to vote.
Among those, 135
million could turn out to vote, marking the highest ratio since 1960.
The
voter registration, now at 73.5 percent -- better than the previous high of 72.1
percent in 1964 and the highest since at least 1920, when women were given the
right to vote.
The center's director Curtis Gans said this is the second
straight election with a significant registration increase, coming after a
3-percent boost in 2004.
He projected Democratic registration will be up 1.4
percent or 2.9 million this year, while GOP registration will be down 1.5
million.
Twenty-eight states and the District of Columbia have partisan
registration.
Based on information so far, the center said, Democratic
registration went up significantly in Nevada, Pennsylvania, Colorado, Arizona,
New Jersey and Maryland.
GOP registration declined in Colorado, Florida and
Pennsylvania, but rose in Nevada.
Xinhua
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