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Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner unsure of voter turnout
Since this is an off-year election, the Secretary of State's office did not put out an official turnout estimate
by WKSU's STATEHOUSE BUREAU CHIEF KAREN KASLER


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Karen Kasler
 
Voters in Ohio are deciding on 1,700 local issues around the state, along with three statewide issues. Most of those are local tax proposals, but there are fewer school levies on the ballot this year than last year. This is considered an off-year election, so Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner didn't estimate how many voters would turn out.
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But Brunner says hundreds of thousands of votes have been cast in early and absentee voting. The three statewide questions before voters deal with the sale of bonds to raise money to pay bonuses to recent war veterans, the creation of a board to set standards of care for livestock, and the expansion of gambling in Ohio through casinos in Cincinnati, Cleveland, Columbus, and Toledo.

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This piece about predicting voter turnout rates for the news, is among the most useless wastes of "news" space I've seen.
The headline, however, goes further than sheer waste or reporter's apparent lack of understanding about what's important in an election, or even why turnout might be important to outcomes.
The headline shows you wanting to create public pictures of people/parties instead of reporting news, as it wrongly infers a Brunner stupidity, or incompetency, The SoS validly did not give a numeric prediction to the only (low-priority) question the reporter was apparently prepared to ask or wanted to know. The headline, however, wrongly infers Brunner as unaware of what had already occurred on election day, and it doesn't even validly fit the stupid copy. The provided sound bite for those who actually play it, is the only saving grace.
No wonder news agencies are dying!


Posted by: Adele (Cleveland) on November 4, 2009 3:13PM
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