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Examples
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Only 65% of voting-age Americans voted in the 2008 Pres. election, and that was a record.
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With that in mind, the time has come to release the 2010 voting-age and voting-eligible population estimates.
Michael P. McDonald: New 2010 Voting-Eligible Population Estimates Available Michael P. McDonald 2010
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Our conclusion that the proper benchmark for measuring proportionality is citizen voting-age population is consistent with the caselaw.
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Up until now, lawmakers' proposals to cut the entitlement programs have met resistance from older Americans, including those 45 and older, who now make up a majority of the voting-age population.
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Hispanics also represented more than half the growth share of the voting-age population in Texas and California.
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The picture changes, however, if voting-age, or citizen voting-age, population is used as the benchmark for determining proportional equality of voting power.
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We think that citizen voting-age population is the basis for determining equality of voting power that best comports with the policy of the statute.
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It is true that some cases, including one of our own, use voting-age population rather than citizen voting-age population.
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Whites have 44 percent of the voting-age population, blacks 36 percent, and Latinos 17 percent.
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Hispanics also represented more than half the growth share of the voting-age population in Texas and California.
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