Important voter information for you to have and to share:
1. If you are not sure what the poll opening & closing times are for your state, or know somebody who needs this information, go here:
http://www.fec.gov/pages/faqs.htm
2. If you or somebody you know is registered, but unsure of where your voting location is, go here:
http://www.mypollingplace.com
Meanwhile, let's have some fun with this thread by using it to conduct the first ever DKOS TURNOUT PREDICTION CONTEST.
Sadly, since 1968 (60.8%), the highwater marks for turnout in the post-Vietnam era were 1976 and 1992 (about 55.2% each year); in both years, of course, the only two Democratic presidents of this period were elected. By comparison, the 2000 final turnout rate for the 208.5M voting-age eligible electorate was 105.6M, or 51.3%. Gore won the popular vote, mind you, despite a low turnout rate compared to what propelled Carter and Clinton into office; it's hard not to feel bad for the guy.
Turning to this year, a similarly-dismal turnout rate of 51.3% in 2004 would yield approximately 111.7M voters, based on the US Census Bureau's current voting-age population estimate of 218.7 million. I think it will be much, much higher than that; indeed, I don't know a soul who thinks otherwise. So I'll predict that we'll have the highest turnout rate since 1968, and peg it at, say, 56.7 percent, or a whopping 124 million estimated voters. And I hope it's even higher than that.
Your guess?
Update by Kos: I don't like MyPollingPlace.com. If I put in my info, it gives not just the wrong polling place, but it even sends me to the wrong city! I'm not the only with similar complaints.
Don't depend on that site to tell you where to go.