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Vol XXXIV No. 85

Monday, February 12, 2001

Voting trends evident in student elections

      Despite consistent complaints of student apathy, Notre Dame students have their own set of voting trends and a history of impressive voter turnout come election day. The entire student body maintains an average voter turnout rate of 52 percent. However if off-campus students are eliminated from the statistics, the rate jumps to 62 percent, said Jay Smith, chief of staff for the O'Donoghue/Norton administration. "If you look at that nationally it's ... [more]
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