TenuredVulture wrote:Early voting would be a good way to increase turnout, and bake sales at polling places would probably help as well.

drsmooth wrote:

TenuredVulture wrote:Early voting would be a good way to increase turnout, and bake sales at polling places would probably help as well.

imagine the polling-place bake sales in CO or WA

ABSTRACT
This article presents a research that examines the relationship of community integration to voting turnout. Five individual attitudes were examined: strength of partisanship, external efficacy, internal efficacy, interest in the campaign, and citizen duty. The focus of the study is the integration of voters into their communities. This integration is posited as close face-to-face relationships in three contexts: the family, the residential community, and peer groups. To test the relationship of community integration to turnout, bake sale variables were employed to provide reasonably appropriate measures of integration into individuals' immediate social milieu, and of their commitment to their communities. The study attempts to test the relationship between parenthood and turnout.

pacino wrote:Bevin won in Kentucky because voters didn't like that Democrats were running the state too well and gave them all healthcare access.

pacino wrote:Ohio rejects Big Pot. Let's hope a real pot bill or vote comes up in the future.

TenuredVulture wrote:

drsmooth wrote:

TenuredVulture wrote:Early voting would be a good way to increase turnout, and bake sales at polling places would probably help as well.

imagine the polling-place bake sales in CO or WA

So we stipulate you can only buy the baked goods after you vote....

But for realsies:

http://connection.ebscohost.com/c/artic ... les-voting

ABSTRACT
This article presents a research that examines the relationship of community integration to voting turnout. Five individual attitudes were examined: strength of partisanship, external efficacy, internal efficacy, interest in the campaign, and citizen duty. The focus of the study is the integration of voters into their communities. This integration is posited as close face-to-face relationships in three contexts: the family, the residential community, and peer groups. To test the relationship of community integration to turnout, bake sale variables were employed to provide reasonably appropriate measures of integration into individuals' immediate social milieu, and of their commitment to their communities. The study attempts to test the relationship between parenthood and turnout.

Southeastern Reading
Voters got a special offer at their polling station at St. Paul's Lutheran Church on Tuesday.

The church also held a soup and bake sale for visitors. The smells of Italian wedding soup, chicken pot pie and brownies filled the air.

Jessica Silleto, 37, of Reading has been going to the church for seven years and has helped with the electoral bake sale for four years.

Silleto and other members of the church helped prepare and sell the food.

Silleto said the church usually brings in about $130 from its election night sale.

"It's not much, but every little bit helps," Silleto said.

pacino wrote:it worked! 26% turnout:

.... The smells of Italian wedding soup, chicken pot pie and brownies filled the air......

Soren wrote:PA Dems sweep the supreme court vote.

pacino wrote:The dude Kentucky elected has 9 kids!! He adopted 4 of them. Wow, that's a lot.

They'll have health insurance, but not sure about the 500k currently on Kentucky ' s OBAMACARE.