MANCHESTER, NEW HAMPSHIRE – There are many lessons to be learned from the Iowa Caucuses for tonight’s Candidates at the ABC/Facebook Debates. Iowa Caucus turnout has never risen above 6.8% of eligible voters. In 2000, a race that is more similar to the 2008 race, Iowa caucus turnout was 6.1%. In 2008 the records have been shattered. 16.4% of eligible Iowans showed up to Caucus… that is an additional 222,757 voters! So you might ask: Where did these Iowans come from – because they did not materialize out of thin air? (more…)

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I wrote an e-mail to someone the other day about all the subjectmatter than can be classified under “the science of voting.” I was referring to the science and technology behind the voting machines used throughout the world, like the quantum cryptography being used to protect votes in Geneva… but check this out.

University of California, San Diego professor James Fowler has drawn a scientific connection between genetics and voting, and he discusses it in the November issue of Scientific American.

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Poll workers are an extremely important part of the process we call voting. Apparently two million of us serve as poll workers! But unfortunately, according to electionline.org, a project of the Pew Center on the States, poll workers are subject to “uneven training, low pay and increasingly complex job requirements.” What does that mean for the voters of America? The full report, a PDF, is available here.

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