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Percent Vote

Percent Vote

The percent of votes is also known as voter turnout. Voter turnout is the number of people who voted divided by the number of eligible voters. Voter turnout has declined in the US since the 1960’s, although in recent years has been on the rise.

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About Percent Vote

In the United States, a legalized citizen who registers to vote is allowed to participate in an election. Extremely high or low turnout is seen as negative to political scientists; because they indicate fraud. For example, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak's NDP party gained 90 seats in the Parliament over low voter turnout. The reason behind the low turnout? Citizens' frustration over vote rigging.

There are several factors that affect voter turnout: age, criminal history, weather and errors in registration. Some people decline voter registration over jury duty fears. Another reason citizens may not vote is over disenchantment with either candidate.

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Evaris Boshab from the People Party for the Reconstruction and the Democracy (PPRD) addresses supporters as they celebrate the election of president Joseph Kabila for a second mandate at the PPRD head office on December 17, 2011 in Kinshasa. The Democratic Republic of Congo's top court Friday upheld President Joseph Kabila's re-election in last month's vote whose results are contested by his main rival, foreign monitors and rights groups. Supreme court vice-president Jerome Kitoko formally declared that Kabila had won 48.95 percent of the vote against 32.33 percent for veteran opposition leader Etienne Tshisekedi at the polling stations on November 28.

People wait to cast their vote for general elections at a polling station in Gibraltar on December 8, 2011. Voters in Gibraltar are set to oust the centre-right Social Democrats from power after 15 years in a general election in the contested British overseas territory. The party has the backing of 43 percent of voters against 52 percent for an alliance between the Gibraltar Socialist Labour Party and the Gibraltar Liberal Party, a poll published last week in online newspaper Panorama showed.

Russian Communist Party leader Gennady Zyuganov speaks during a news conference in Moscow on December 5, 2011. United Russia should obtain 238 seats in the 450-seat State Duma. Its biggest opposition will be the Communist Party with 92 seats, followed by the A Just Russia party with 64 seats and the ultra-nationalist Liberal Democratic Party with 56 mandates. The results are based on a 96 percent vote count.

A local election commission officials count votes at a polling station in Moscow, on December 4, 2011. Russia's ruling party was leading the country's legislative elections with 45.9 percent of the vote based on over 17 percent of the precincts reporting, the central election commission said today.

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