Gerry referred to disenfrabchised voters. I'm wondering who they are.
"dfsavgny" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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>Asbury Park City, New Jersey Statistics and Demographics (US Census
>2000)
> Number Percent
>Asbury Park Population: 16930 100.00%
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>Sex and Age
>Male 7943 46.92%
>Female 8987 53.08%
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>Under 5 years 1539 9.09%
>5 to 9 years 1579 9.33%
>10 to 14 years 1284 7.58%
>15 to 19 years 1123 6.63%
>20 to 24 years 1366 8.07%
>25 to 34 years 2666 15.75%
>35 to 44 years 2380 14.06%
>45 to 54 years 1895 11.19%
>55 to 59 years 626 3.7%
>60 to 64 years 581 3.43%
>65 to 74 years 904 5.34%
>75 to 84 years 682 4.03%
>85 years and over 305 1.8%
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>Median age (years) 30.6
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>18 years and over 11841 69.94%
>Male 5376 31.75%
>Female 6465 38.19%
>21 years and over 11132 65.75%
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>Joe,
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>Since you seem to have a thing for exactitude, here's the 2000
>census data for AP. Assume its the same, thus, almost 70% of the
>16,930 are of voting age. Voter turnout by your numbers was 20.91%.
>You got the numbers now you can discuss the issues Gerry and Skip
>raised instead of splitting hairs with them. Turnout is terrible in
>AP. Few care and people get elected by relatively a few voters yet
>decide the fate of the entire city. Hopefully this year there will
>be a drive to get the people who pay the bills in this city vote;
>the TAXPAYERS.
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>--- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, Joe D'Andrea <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> At 8:28 PM +0000 2/21/05, SkipDragon wrote:
>> >Voter turnout is significantly lower in off-cycle municipal
>elections
>> >than in general elections. Need we say more? One of the
>overriding
>> >problems with Asbury is an appalling lack of citizen involvement;
>> >which results in a sort of Russian roulette electoral contest, an
>> >elected that owes its existence more to fate than process and the
>sort
>> >of secrecy and back room deal making that today's norm. 1700,
>2500
>> >who cares; it's too few for a city of 17,000.
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>> Aren't some of the 17,000 children?
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>> And can you please substantiate or clarify your statement that a
>lack of citizen involvement (i.e., low voter turnout) leads to
>secrecy and back room deal making.
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>> ~joe
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