-By Warner Todd Huston
After months of rioting, one of the main themes that many left-wing rabble-rousers have been pushing on residents of Ferguson is to register to vote so that they can “change” their local government. But despite all the rhetoric, few Ferguson residents bothered to vote last Tuesday.
A big criticism of Ferguson, Missouri’s government is that there are “too many white people” in it. Activists have maintained that only a slate full of black candidates can properly govern the largely black population of the city. So, to throw out the few whites on the council, activists have urged citizens to register to vote and usher in a utopian black government.
But despite all the caterwauling of activists, it appears that Ferguson residents still weren’t motivated very much to go register and vote.
KMOV TV reports that regardless of all that gnashing of teeth the 2014 turnout still wasn’t that great.
To put it bluntly, voter turnout for Ferguson Township was far from historic.
Of 24,334 registered voters, 10,222 cast ballots in Tuesday’s election, a turnout of slightly more than 42%, according to an initial tally.
There wasn’t a wave of new voters, either, as only 204 residents registered to vote between August 11, the Monday after Brown was shot, and October 8, the registration deadline for Tuesday’s election, said Rita Days, St. Louis County’s director of elections. Fifty-six additional residents have registered since October 8, she said.
Ferguson Mayor James Knowles also pointed out that his city’s voter rate of 42 percent even lagged behind the dismal 44 percent voter turnout of the rest of the county. It is also below the county’s totals of 55.8% (2010) and 63.4% (2006) in comparable midterm elections, the TV station reported.
So, despite all the complaining, all the brick throwing and the high volume of hate-inciting speech by protesters and activists like MSNBC mouth Al Sharpton, the citizens of Ferguson just didn’t much care to vote… again.
My Other Coverage of the Events in Ferguson
- You Built This, Mr. President, Ferguson is all That is Wrong With Democrats
- On Ferguson I Was Right No Indictment, Updated With Testimony
- Despite Rabble-Rousers Urging Ferguson Citizens to Vote, Few Bothered
- NPR-Celebrated Muslim Reporter in Ferguson Has Record as Child Molester
- Ferguson Fallout: School Lesson Teaches Kids To Agree With the Black Panthers’ Demands
- ‘The Atlantic’ Says Ferguson Riots White People’s Fault
- Ferguson: We’ve Seen Enough to Know That Mike Brown Was a Thug, Cop Innocent
- Note the Difference Between Bundy Ranch Protest and Ferguson Riots
- HuffPo ‘Reporter’ Stirs Race Hate in Ferguson
- CNN Quietly Changes Story that DOJ Held Back Ferguson Robbery Video
- Leftist Columnist Glenn Greenwald Somehow Blames Israel for Ferguson Riots
- VIDEO: Obama Was Back On Golf Course Only Seven Mins After Ferguson Address
- On Ferguson I Was Right No Indictment, Updated With Testimony
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Warner Todd Huston is a Chicago based freelance writer. He has been writing opinion editorials and social criticism since early 2001 and before that he wrote articles on U.S. history for several small American magazines. His political columns are featured on many websites such as Andrew Breitbart’s BigGovernment.com, BigHollywood.com, and BigJournalism.com, as well as RightWingNews.com, CanadaFreePress.com, Wizbang.com, among many, many others. Huston has also appeared on Fox News, Fox Business Network, CNN, and many local TV shows as well as numerous talk radio shows throughout the country.
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