1.   Last winter, I suggested giving the early primaries to the states with the highest voter turnout in the prior presidential election.

2.   Participation is measured using voter turnout, or the percentage of the eligible voters who actually voted in national elections.

3.   Yet statistics that show voter turnout slowly sliding down, down.

4.   In most parliamentary democracies voter turnout tends to be around half to three-quarters of the electorate.

5.   Allowing voters to register on election day, instead of cutting off registration weeks earlier, also could boost voter turnout, Campbell said.

6.   Amid record low voter turnout Tuesday, an important proposition intended to allow popular politicians to escape term limits appeared headed for a sound defeat Tuesday evening.

7.   And Berlin is a sort of Democratic island in the White Mountains, a working-class city with a reputation for high voter turnout.

8.   And aided by voter turnout in runoffs for district offices involving Hispanic candidates in South Texas, he won the Senate nomination in his first race for statewide office.

9.   And he expects that low voter turnout in September and November will benefit incumbents, whether Republican or Democrat.