[RP TownTalk] Election Results

[Dwight Holmes]

Also, I believe Gerard posted awhile back (in the Post Office/Zip Code
thread) that the Riverdale Park population number given by Census is
inflated because they assign a few areas to the town that aren't
actually part of the town.

On 5/11/07, Regina M. Kreger <regina at kreger.net> wrote:
> My point was that if there are 6,600 residents, then 2,447 registered
> voters doesn't seem so low (Lou says "only" 2,447).  But as you point
> out, that number is inflated by people no longer resident here. I wonder
> how many eligible voters we actually have who are not registered.
> Registered voters who didn't vote, that's another question. Honestly, I
> was very surprised at how many people bothered to vote in uncontested wards.
>
> Alan Thompson and Sarah Wayland wrote:
>
> >Lou did refer to the number of registered voters in his message (which is
> >certainly lower than the number of residents.)
> >
> >I'd like to point out that many of the people in the registry no longer
> >live here. On my block, for example, a couple that hasn't lived here for
> >nearly 4 years is still registered!
> >
> >We really need to clean up the registry, but to be honest, I'm not sure
> >what the procedure is for doing so.
> >