Voter Registration Background Data

We started the search by going to www.google.com and searching “male and female voter registration statistics in North Olmsted, Ohio”.  At first the search didn’t yield all of the information that we had initially hoped.  We did find some information on the demographics in North Olmsted from the website http://www.city-data.com/city/North-Olmsted-Ohio.html which stated that as of 2009 there were 14,986 men and 16,067 females living in the city.

From the lack of information online we believe that this study has not been done or at least publicly published for the North Olmsted, Ohio population.  We expanded the search for background data to outside of our city and found that this study has been done numerous times on the national level.  To find this information we searched from www.google.com  “proportion of male vs. females registered to vote” and went to the first link which was http://womensissues.about.com/od/thepoliticalarena/a/GenderVoting.htm.  Once there, we found that as of the 2004 presidential elections, 60.1% of women in America voted, compared to the 56.3% of male American citizen who voted.

The tenth site using the search “males vs. female registered voters in U.S.” gave us these results. http://www.sayfiereview.com/documents/voter-demographics-battle-for-the-sexes-macmanus.pdf.  There is a continuous study that is being conducted that was started in 1980 on the voter registration between males and females on the national level. It also gave specific numbers on the state of Florida.  The information on this site said that there are more women voters registered than men in Florida almost always since 1980. In 2008, 52.8% of women in the nation were registered to vote while 45.4% of men in the nation were registered to vote in the state of Florida (percentages don’t equal 100% because there is an unknown category). In the entire U.S. the data for earlier years always showed women having higher registration rates than men in the entire U.S. population 18 years or older. Both male and female had higher rates during presidential election year but the female population always had slightly, or in some cases largely different results.

We then typed in “male vs. female voter registration rates.” Using the first link that we got from the google search,  http://www.civicyouth.org/PopUps/turnoutbygender.pdf, we found a study on voter registration rates in the U.S.  This study showed us that females, once again, had more registration rates in presidential and non-presidential election years by a very slim margin through the years 1972-2000. However, in the past 10 years the data shown seemed to be displaying that registration rates have been increasingly growing different with the women having higher registration rates in the U.S. This study also broke the male and female populations down into different age subcategories.  It showed that women ages 18-24 had a higher rate of registration than men ages 18-24 on presidential election years. During those off election years, male and females ages 18-24 vary year to year favoring neither of the too with more registration.

Next we typed “male vs. female voting registration rates” only this time in a yahoo search from www.yahoo.com.  One of the sites we found of this search was the following  http://www.census.gov/prod/2006pubs/p20-556.pdf.  This study showed that 74% of women citizens were registered to vote in the 2004 presidential election and 71% of men citizens were. In the study this site did, they used a 90% confidence interval and found that 70.1−70.9% of men were registered and 73.2−74.0% of women were registered as of the entire population in the U.S. in 2004. The whole male interval was lower than the women's interval so in this data set it was concluded that the mean of the females registered rates is higher than the males registered rates.