CIRCLE has issued two releases estimating youth turnout in the 2004 presidential election. The first release was issued on November 3rd and provided the earliest turnout estimates based on National Election Pool (NEP) state and national exit polls and a preliminary vote count. The second was a Fact Sheet released on November 8th which provided…

Information and suggestions for activities designed to illustrate the potential power of new voters and to assist in answering some basic questions facing all voters. (JB)

Discusses the failure of high schools to educate newly enfranchized voters and suggests remedies. (JF)

The use of a voting list to ascertain what concerns the sixth grade student and as a means of teaching parliamentary procedure and values is described. (DB)

Proposes that political candidates, particularly those running for lesser offices, be required to make their party affiliation visible. This would protect the voter from misrepresentation and help stop the erosion of political parties. (CK)

Reports that all indices of political change tested were found to correlate significantly with exposure to televised political advertisements in the 1975 Chicago mayoral campaign. Notes that the correlations were not significantly different among voters with high, medium, and low levels of political involvement. (GT)

The theory of "voter crosspressure" focuses on the idea that voters have predispositions and try to avoid information (pressure) that would cause them to vote against their predisposition. If a voter is unsuccessful in avoiding that information, he or she will vote against his or her predisposition. (Author/IRT)

The discrepancies in the power of voters in the various states is examined by computing the probability that an individual vote will be critical in an election. (MP)

The presidential election that frequently features the results of political polling is presented. These polls attempt to estimate the popular vote that each candidate would receive as they could predict who would win the elections.

In this article, the author shares her views on the collected works on women suffrage from 1920-1930, which were collated by the activists at National Federation of Women Teachers (NFWT). She relates how she had been impressed by the NFWT activists' organizational capacity to coordinate 70 identically worded motions in support of women's suffrage,…

Low youth electoral turnouts are considered problematic in many democracies. Here I explore youth electoral engagement in the Australian context where the policy literature attributes low youth electoral enrolments to apathetic and disassociated youth, and the response is Civics and Citizenship education. This construction of youth and advocacy of…

This information book provides a student text on voting procedures in Canada. The short sections provide easy reading on the federal electoral process in Canada. Students read about who can vote, how and when women and minorities won voting rights, the different parties, the voting process --both present and past, and election day happenings.…