{"id":47699,"date":"2014-06-11T15:59:17","date_gmt":"2014-06-11T20:59:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=47699"},"modified":"2014-06-11T15:59:17","modified_gmt":"2014-06-11T20:59:17","slug":"16-of-eligible-n-d-voters-turned-out-primary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=47699","title":{"rendered":"16 % Of Eligible N.D. Voters Turned Out, Primary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/votebuttonjpg.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-7459\" alt=\"votebuttonjpgTHUMB\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/votebuttonjpg.jpg\" width=\"180\" height=\"119\" \/><\/a>BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) &#8211; North Dakota&#8217;s primary election turnout was the lowest in decades.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Data from the Secretary of State&#8217;s Office show turnout for Tuesday&#8217;s election was 17 percent, with just more than 93,000 people making it to the polls.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The agency has been keeping turnout records since 1980. The previous low for a June primary was 19 percent in 2004.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 North Dakota has no voter registration, and the turnout percentage is calculated using a North Dakota State Data Center estimate of the number of eligible voters.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The center estimated there were 545,020 North Dakotans who were eligible to vote. That population was based on 2012 census data.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The most recent census data show about 561,000 people are eligible to vote. Using those population figures, the turnout would be about 16 percent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) &#8211; North Dakota&#8217;s primary election turnout was the lowest in decades. \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Data from the Secretary of State&#8217;s Office show turnout for Tuesday&#8217;s election was 17 percent, with just more than 93,000 people making it to the polls. \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The agency has been keeping turnout [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":47588,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47699"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47699\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47700,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47699\/revisions\/47700"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/47588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}