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FAQ

Frequently Asked Questions

Permissions and Citations

  • Do I have permission to use the voter turnout data and graphics appearing on this website?

  • How should I cite this website?

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?

Contact:

Michael P. McDonald
Professor
University of Florida
Department of Political Science
222 Anderson Hall
P.O. Box 117325
Gainesville, FL 32611
phone:   352-273-2371 (office)
e-mail:  michael.mcdonald@ufl.edu

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