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Article: Census Bureau to Update Information on Nation's Voting Patterns
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- U.S. Newswire
- Article date:
- November 5, 2004
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NEW YORK, Nov. 5 /U.S. Newswire/ -- About 6-in-10 U.S. citizens
age 18 and over voted in the last presidential election in 2000,
according to the U.S. Census Bureau. Did the rate increase, decrease
or stay the same in this year's election held on Nov. 2?
The Census Bureau's monthly Current Population Survey (CPS),
dating from 1942 and the longest-running household survey in the
country, will yield an answer to this and many other questions about
our nation's 2004 voting habits.
"The survey is collecting information on rates of voting and
registration by a variety of characteristics, such as race, Hispanic
origin and age," said Lester A. Farthing, director of the Census
Bureau's New York ...