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user-inactivated  ·  2081 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Ohio Special Election Live Update

Less than 2000 votes separated the winner from 2nd place. And we get to do this again with the same two people in November.





user-inactivated  ·  2081 days ago  ·  link  ·  

For fuck sake, Green Party.

b_b  ·  2080 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Greens notwithstanding, this is another example of a Trump heavy district almost flipping. If I were a Democrat running for office I wouldn't even acknowledge my opponent during the race. I would run against Trump entirely. He is toxic.

Cumol  ·  2081 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Naive question... why are there only 200k voters? The state of Ohio must have multiples of that as people who can vote or am I missing something?

user-inactivated  ·  2081 days ago  ·  link  ·  
Cumol  ·  2081 days ago  ·  link  ·  

thats even worse. Why is that so? Isn’t everyone allowed to vote?

That’s like a 2.5% voter turnout???

user-inactivated  ·  2081 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Oh! This was a Congressional district. So not a statewide race. Sorry. The coffee is slow to work this morning.

https://www.census.gov/mycd/?st=39&cd=12

582.000 people over the age of 18. Still not great, but better. I can't find any stats right now on how many of those are actually registered to vote. TBH, I'm not too convinced that's a useful stat in this context anyways. More of a sanitizing one. "Participation rates go up once you only factor in people who at least minimally engaged with the system!"

user-inactivated  ·  2081 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Closer to 50%. This was not a state-wide election, just a Congressional race.