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> No. of Eligible Voters:2861 > Total Ballots Counted:1721 > Votes for Labor Union:1599 > Votes Against:122 93% for, with 60% turnout. Wow! https://www.nlr
by advisedwang 4y ago
> No. of Eligible Voters:2861
> Total Ballots Counted:1721
> Votes for Labor Union:1599
> Votes Against:122
93% for, with 60% turnout. Wow!
https://www.nlrb.gov/case/31-RC-308858 https://www.nlrb.gov/case/31-RC-308858
- solarmist 4y agoExcellent. I can't wait to see what changes this brings.
- nickff 4y agoWell, I'd interpret those numbers as: ~56% for, ~4% opposed, and ~40% unknown.
- citizenkeen 4y agoThat's not how voting works.
- desmond373 4y agoJust because that's not how this form of voting works, doesn't mean it not an interesting stat to look at.
- kbelder 4y agoUnknown and presumably mostly ambivalent?
- autoexec 4y agoRather than look at it as "I don't care enough to vote" I tend to look at it as "unwilling or unable to vote" although hopefully the number of people "unable" would be small.
- shkkmo 4y agoWhich means that even if all 40% of the non-voters had voted against the union, it still would have passed. That's an extremely strong result.
- advisedwang 4y agoAn absolute majority is frankly pretty impressive. By the same calculation the last US presidential election was 37% unknown, 32% Biden, 29% Trump, 2% 3rd party. 81,283,501 for Biden, 74,223,975 for Trump, 158,429,631 total votes, 252,274,000 as best proxy for eligeble voters (18+ us pop) per [1] [1] https://www.fec.gov/resources/cms-content/documents/federalelections2020.pdf https://www.fec.gov/resources/cms-content/documents/federale...