[EL] Presidential Election Under-Votes

[Derek Willis]

The Houston Chronicle published a story today on the 32k+ Harris County
voters who didn't vote in the presidential race:
http://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/politics/election/article/Who-skipped-the-presidential-race-and-what-it-10606946.php?t=f926444bfd438d9cbb&cmpid=twitter-premium

On Thu, Nov 10, 2016 at 7:55 PM, Richard Winger <richardwinger at yahoo.com>
wrote:

> The California Secretary of State's web page this afternoon lists
> 8,935,530 votes for president, and 7,789,622 votes for US Senator.
>
> The California Secretary of State hasn't posted any presidential write-in
> results yet.  In the two precincts in my neighborhood, one precinct had 5
> write-ins for president (out of 291 voters who voted in the precinct as
> opposed to voting by mail), and the other had 7 write-ins for president (I
> didn't get the total vote for president in that precinct).
>
> I was an exit pollster in Berkeley, and out of the 140 questionaires,
> three people said they cast a write-in for Bernie Sanders.  So, based on
> that limited sample of 3 precincts, I am guessing there were probably
> 200,000 write-ins for president in California.
>
> California doesn't allow write-ins for congress in the general election,
> but does allow write-ins for president and for all non-partisan office.
>
> Richard Winger 415-922-9779 PO Box 470296, San Francisco Ca 94147
>
>
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> *From:* Lisa Hauser <lhauser2 at cox.net>
> *To:* law-election at department-lists.uci.edu
> *Sent:* Thursday, November 10, 2016 4:02 PM
> *Subject:* [EL] Presidential Election Under-Votes
>
> I am curious as to whether there any of you have looked yet at the extent
> of under-voting in the presidential election.  I do not recall a time when
> I heard so many typically high efficacy voters state that they would vote
> for *no* candidate in the presidential election.  I suspect such voters
> to have voted in down ballot races, however.  I heard this more from
> Republicans than Democrats but it is certainly possible that there were
> Democrats in this category as well.  Trump’s support was obviously
> underestimated and I wonder if there really were as many people who sat out
> the presidential election as threatened.
>
> *Lisa T. Hauser*
> *Of Counsel, The Doyle Firm, PC*
> 1313 E. Osborn Road, Ste. 220
> Phoenix, AZ 85014
> Personal Email: lhauser2 at cox.net
> Cell: 602-616-9368
>
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