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o o Ncfin-Yoter Object of Attention as Close Election Forecast By William B. Dickinson, Jr. - Washington-Forecasts of an extremely close presidential election this year have made the habitual non-voter an ob ject of unusual attention: ' pemocrats and Republicans are wooing him as never be fore. Both political parties recognize that drastic turns in political history have been brought about by marked in creases in the voting turnout. - Spokesmen for each party contend that a large increase in registration will favor Its ticket on Nov. 8. Democrats are pushing their registration drive on the announced as sumption that seven of every ten new registrants will vote for the Kennedy-Johnson ticket Republican - startegists cite statistics showing that in creases in registration may bring victory to Nixon and Lodge: ';: ,.,v:'-' ' Strong Risk Factor : At; least one study-by. the Survey Research Center; at the University of Michigan indicates that partisan regis tration drives carry a strong risk factor. The habitual non voter frequently is a person of little political stability who is likely to hop aboard a psychological bandwagon. For example, 82 per cent of non-voters polled by the Sur vey Research Center after the 1948 election said they would have cast their ballots for President Truman if they had gone to the polls-as against only 18 per cent who said they would have . voted for Gov. Thomas E. Dewey. But a similar poll taken after the 1956 election indicated that only 28 per cent of non-voters that year would have cast Democratic ballots,- whereas 72 per cent would have voted Republican. v Certain political scientists long have . questioned the value of get-out-the-vote cam paigns. They argue that a large vole is not necessarily an informed vote, and that in the words of one critic campaigns to bring out any kind of vote result in "a dilu tion of whatever thoughtful ness others have contributed to the electoral process , with an unmeasured potion of the poison of indifference, irre sponsibility and civic stupid ity." Persons of this mind as sert that a small vote is part of the public record and it self a significant voter re action. Representative Government The counter-argument, and the one which appears to have the widest following, is that maximum exercise of suffrage rights makes for the most truly representative govern ment. Thomas, Jefferson wrote in 1807: "That government is the strongest of which every man feels himself a part." Yet, unless many former non voters have a change of heart, fewer than two-thirds of -the men and women of voting age will go tot the polls this year. The Census Bureau esti mates that there will be about 108,900,000 Americans of vot ing age by November, in cluding 1,900,000 members of the armed forces The 'largest nroDortional turnout for a presidential election was re corded in iaoi wiicu nnn men anrl women, or 62.7 per cent of the civilians of voting age, went to the polls. The 62,027,000 persons who voted In 1956 constituted only 30.4 per cent of an estimated total of 102,743,000 civilians of voting age. Communist nations . long have used American voting percentages to ridicule the idea that this country prac tices true democracy. How ever, when the American record is looked at in the light of obstacles to voting raised- by the states, under their power to prescribe qual ifications for exercise of the franchise, it appears more favorable than the. raw sta tistics suggest. Voters Discouraged . The American Heritage Foundation has reported that in 1956 six million potential voters were unable to meet state residence requirements. The poll tax ' and literacy tests discourage or bar the voting of hundreds of thou sands, if not millions. Nearly half a million citizens of vot ing age domiciled in the Dis trict of Columbia lack the franchise. Convicts, idiots and the insane are barred from voting anywhere. . In all, at least 13 million of the more than 100 million Americans of voting age are believed to be legally disqualified.' . Reform of antiqgated voting-laws has been slow to materialize. But at least six states in the last seven years have adopted plans under which a registered voter does not lose his right to vote for President and Vice President solely because of . a ' change of residence. One plan, adopt ed first by Connecticut, per mits a resident who moves out of the state prior to a presidential election to cast an absentee ballot. The value of literacy tests, still required of persons seeking to register to vote in 19 states, has been questioned. Some observers contend that literacy tests have not perceptibly improv ed the quality of voting any- Medford 1 " Tribune SECTION B MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1960 PAGES 1 to 14 where, and that, they lend themselves readily to abuse. In the case of millions of Americans, political apathy probably is chiefly respon sible for (allure ' to vote These are the persons aimed at by the current registra tion campaigns. 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