Election 2012: Record Number of Students Vote in UC Noël Um Assistant News Editor Brian Trimboli Staffwriter
Ph.D. students use phones ‘Movember’ raises men’s Pittsburgh festival offers to track down malaria • A4 health awareness • A7 indie film paradise• B8 SCITECH FORUM PILLBOX thetartan.org @thetartan November 12, 2012 Volume 107, Issue 11 Carnegie Mellon’s student newspaper since 1906 Election 2012: Record number of students vote in UC NOËL UM Assistant News Editor BRIAN TRIMBOLI Staffwriter A record-breaking number of Carnegie Mellon students showed up at the polls this year. Students cast 1,445 votes at polling locations on Carn- egie Mellon’s campus, a leap from the 1,140 votes cast in the 2008 election. This increase in voter turn- out did not necessarily mean greater enthusiasm for the election, but was due in part to the increased number of vot- ers on campus. In 2008, there were 2,153 registered voters at Carnegie Mellon; this year, there were 3,269. Thus, the percentage of voter turnout actually de- creased from 52.5 percent in 2008 to 44.2 percent in 2012, according to the Allegheny County Pennsylvania Election Detail District Report. According to that same re- port, 1,724 Carnegie Mellon students voted for President Barack Obama, 368 voted for Republican candidate Mitt Romney, 57 voted for Libertar- ian candidate Gary Johnson, Jonathan Carreon/Photo Editor and 18 voted for Green Party Top: Last Tuesday, 1,445 students showed up to vote in the Alumni Lounge. Bottom Right: Students line up inside the University Center to cast their ballots. candidate Jill Stein. Compared to the 2008 elec- the voting booths expressed Romney based on his econom- adding $4 trillion to the na- tions, Obama did not have as their enthusiasm in voting for ic plan were disappointed with tional deficit is a sign of mis- great of a lead among Carn- their respective candidates.
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