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Definitions and Background
What are the turnout rate numerators: "Vote for Highest Office" and "Total Ballots Counted"?
What are the turnout rate denominators: voting-age population (VAP) and voting-eligible population (VEP)?
Where can I learn more about these data?
Why didn't someone think of this before?
Components of the Voting-Eligible Population
Overview of how the voting-eligible population (VEP) constructed
How is the voting-age population (VAP) constructed?
How is the non-citizen population estimated?
How is the ineligible felon population estimated?
How is the overseas eligible population estimated?
What is left out of the voting-eligible population?
Comparisons to Other Turnout Rates
Why should I care if turnout rates are calculated as percentage of the VAP or VEP?
Why not calculate turnout rates as a percentage of voter registration?
Why isn't the VEP turnout rate the same as the Census Bureau's CPS turnout rate?
More Turnout Rates
I want pre-1980 state level VEP turnout rates
I want congressional, state legislative district, or county VEP turnout rates
Why doesn't the government compute these statistics?
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