Curtis Killman
Tulsa World
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.
48th in the nation for voter turnout. Sad.
What does being the reddest/most conservative state in the nation matter if nobody bothers to show up for a general election?!?
Most Oklahomans can count themselves as the group of people that would rather stay home watching re-runs of Jersey Shore than actually trying to make a difference in the country.
http://otterlimits.wordpress.com/2013/04/04/voter-apathy-in-oklahoma/