Article: Census Bureau to Update Information on Nation's Voting Patterns

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 ...

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