[demlosers]

Does anyone know the 2004 election figures for Philadelphia, Milwaukee, and Seattle? How close did these areas get to 100% voter participation? And how close is voter registration in the cities above to their respective adult populations?

[T. P. Pole]

Does anyone know the 2004 election figures for Philadelphia, Milwaukee, and Seattle? How close did these areas get to 100% voter participation? And how close is voter registration in the cities above to their respective adult populations?

Milwaukee is a fun one. Wisconsin allows same day registration. Turns out that there are over 10,000 same day registrations in Milwaukee alone that cannot be verified (incomplete, illegible, bogus address). Guess how much Kerry won Wisconsin by?

Yup, just over 10,000.

There's some active threads on the Milwaukee stuff. Here's one. Follow the WISTONELELECTION keyword to find others.

[steveegg]

Does anyone know the 2004 election figures for Philadelphia, Milwaukee, and Seattle? How close did these areas get to 100% voter participation? And how close is voter registration in the cities above to their respective adult populations?

According to the Milwaukee Election Commission publicly-released results, there were 396,600 "pre-registered" voters and 277,344 total ballots cast (with 276,732 votes recorded for President). Some side notes (most, if not all, of the details scattered among the threads with the keyword T.P. Pole linked to):

• There are approximately 430,000 adults in the city of Milwaukee.
• The 396,600 "pre-registered" voters does not include the number of registrations processed between October 26 and November 2 (an estimated 15,000-20,000) that represent "new" registrations as opposed to those that represent a change of address within the city.
• There were approximately 83,000 same-day registrations in the city (no word on how many were "change-of-address", how many were "duplicates"-self-defined as those who decided to re-register at the same address as they were already registered at, and how many represent "new" registrations.