“Election Archives”” under “”Election Results,”” and notice that there are “”Cumulative”” and “”Canvas”” reports for the most recent (March 3, 2020) Republican and Democratic Primary Elections. The cumulative report tells what happened in Harris County as a whole in each primary. The Canvas report give individual results for each voting precinct – which is a specific neighborhood.

Write a 2 – 5 page essay about voter turnout in the two March 2020 primary elections in Harris County, and in your voting precinct. If you don’t know your voting precinct, look on your voter registration card, or click HERE (Links to an external site.) and enter your street address. If you don’t live in Harris County, use a friend’s address. Make sure you give specific turnout numbers and percentages for each primary the county as a whole, and for your precinct. Discuss what you found. How does your neighborhood compare to the county in terms of turnout in each primary? Is your neighborhood more Democratic or more Republican than the county as a whole?Why do you think that is? Finally, do you think we should do anything as a society to increase voter turnout, and – if so, what?

Hint: a voting precinct is like a neighborhood. It’s unlikely to have more than a couple thousand people. If you’re trying to tell me how tens of thousands of people voted in your precinct, you’re doing it wrong.
Submit in Word. Cite your sources.
Additional Resources
What does my voting precinct look like? Get the number first, but then go here and use the pull-down menu to look at a map of your voting precinct: https://www.hctax.net/Voter/VoterMaps
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