Scouting, Volume 60, Number 6, September 1972 Page: 35
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Americans are generally vocal
L about what's right and wrong
with the country, but they are not
always faithful in exercising their
right to express themselves at the
ballot box. Because voting is so
easy, it sometimes is taken for
granted and forgotten when Elec-
tion Day rolls around.
Presidential elections draw the
biggest voter turnouts. But even for
these quadrennial opportunities,
only about 6 out of every 10 adult
citizens turn out to vote. In the 1968
election, for example, when Presi-
dent Nixon won by the tiniest of
margins over Hubert H. Humphrey,
only 61.8 percent of the citizens of
voting age registered and voted. In
1964—when President Lyndon John-
son beat Barry Goldwater—the per-
centage was 62.9. In the 1960 Ken-
nedy-Nixon race, 64 percent of reg-
istered Americans cast ballots.
In the Presidential election this
November, Cub Scout packs and
Scout troops can have a positive
effect on the vote totals in their
communities by undertaking a get-
out-the-vote project. The purpose is
to tell our citizens to register, if
necessary in their state, and then to
remind them again to vote on Elec-
tion Day, Nov. 7.
There is no national program for
this project, but packs and troops
are encouraged to develop and oper-
ate their own get-out-the-vote cam-
paigns. Pack committees and troop
leaders' councils can discuss the
project at the earliest possible time
and decide what form it should take
locally.
Here are a few ideas for local
projects. Use them if you wish, or
think up some others of your own.
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Boy Scouts of America. Scouting, Volume 60, Number 6, September 1972, periodical, September 1972; New Brunswick, New Jersey. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth353553/m1/43/: accessed May 6, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Boy Scouts of America National Scouting Museum.