US Census: OK 3rd Lowest Turnout in 2012 Election
Questions that must be asked: did evangelical voters stay home? Are Oklahoma voters simply tired of non competitive presidential races? Questions The Okie will be researching in the months ahead…
Oklahoma voter turnout third-lowest in 2012 election
By CURTIS KILLMAN World Staff Writer on May 9, 2013
Barely half of the citizen voting age population in Oklahoma cast ballots in the 2012 presidential election, ranking it third worst among states, according to a U.S. Census Bureau report released Wednesday.
The 52.4 percent 2012 voting rate in Oklahoma beat only Hawaii and West Virginia and was 6.3 percent worse than in the 2008 presidential election.
Meanwhile, the census study found that black people nationally, for the first time, voted at higher rates than whites in the 2012 election.
About two in three eligible blacks in the U.S., or 66.2 percent, voted in the 2012 presidential election, higher than the 64.1 percent of non-Hispanic whites who did so, according to the report.