Not quite right, there, Skip. Scotland would come 22nd, just behind Minnesota.Since1982 wrote:Methinks we have a tad more people in all but about 6 individual states of 52 than Scotland does...but maybe I'm wrong.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U. ... population
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demography_of_Scotland
And the UK is way bigger than tiddly little California, but I'll let you look that one up for yourself.
I think you may have hit on the nub of the problem. However, it is generally reckoned over here that if you have lots of elections on different days (and by lots, I mean more than 2), the people get sick of voting and turnover goes down even further.Since1982 wrote:Also, none of our voting blocs, even the largest ones have hit upon the idea of breaking the vote up into multiple days and insist in jamming them all into the same day, TUESDAY!