Yeah, Seattle had two major street parties going last night, one on Broadway - the main street of Capital Hill, the young/gay district, and one on Pike which connects Capital Hill to Downtown.
Apparently they ran past 1:30 am because as people left, others joined them.
Actually, a friend on LJ has photos in an unlocked post, so here you go -
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Roughly 63% of eligible folks voted.
According to XM's pollitics channel this morning, this year's voting rate may be the highest since 1908. A full century.
Roughly 1/3 of populace voted.
Roughly 63% of eligible folks voted.
Does that mean only 1/3 of our populace is eligable to vote? Or is that 63% of registered voters?
I couldn't find registered voter stat, only eligible stat.
1/3 is total populace that voted. Children, immigrants, etc.
population : 301 million
Those eligible to vote: 213 million
Votes: 120 million
All heavily rounded numbers. And votes are still being count.
(gosh, I hope my Gronk numbers estimate were close, seeing how we got some math whizzes in here)
According to the LA country registrar prop 8 passed by a .9% margin, 20,806 votes.
Is there an automatic re-count for when the margin is below a certain percentage?
According to the LA country registrar prop 8 passed by a .9% margin, 20,806 votes.
Laga, that has to be just for the county, right? Because statewide, it won bigger:
Yes 5,163,908 52.0%
No 4,760,336 48.0%
That was with 95% of precincts reporting.
I heard on NPR this morning that 77% of eligible voters voted in my home state of Minnesota.
At 5PM, my mom's precinct had an 85% turnout.