At 64.25% Minnesota led the country in voter turnout

[dflprincess]

And the Third Congressional District had a 73% turnout (take that Erik Paulsen), tying with Colorado's CD2 for highest turnout in a congressional district.

As one of our local activists (who is no longer with us) used to say at moments like this "Damn, we're good!"

[Wellstone ruled]

1. You Guy's are good.

Had you had this 73% 12 years ago,no Paulsen.

[central scrutinizer]

2. Oregon - 69.6%

From Secretary of State website:

Ballots Received1,914,922
Eligible Voters2,749,422

[dflprincess]

3. You're saying Minnesota Public Radio "misspoke"?

Just so you know I didn't make it up:

https://www.mprnews.org/story/2018/11/27/minnesota-2018-voter-turnout-tops-the-nation

More than 2.6 million Minnesotans cast ballots in this month's election, short of the 2.9 million who voted two years ago, but still good enough to hit 64.25 percent of eligible voters and once again lead the nation.

State officials certified the election results Tuesday.

Minnesota Secretary of State Steve Simon, who chairs the state canvassing board, noted that it was the second election in a row that Minnesota voters led the nation.

"We were No. 1, and not by a little bit. We beat the second-place finisher, the state of Colorado, by over a full percentage point, which in election terms is a lot," he said.

I'm crushed, if I can't trust MPR, who can I trust?

[central scrutinizer]

4. Maybe it was highest turnout at polling places

We vote entirely by mail in Oregon

http://results.oregonvotes.gov/

[dflprincess]

5. Turn out vs mail in did cross my mind as the reason for difference

but we had a lot of early voting (technically "no excuse absentee voting" here) and quite a bit of that is mail in, though we can also vote early in person.

It would be interesting to know how the stats were calculated.

I did find this at the MN Secretary of State website.
https://electionresults.sos.state.mn.us/Select/VoterTurnout/115

"Number of Eligible Voters
Minnesota uses the number of the Voting Eligible Population (VEP) as the denominator when calculating the percentage
of voters who voted.
The VEP is the number of individuals 18 years of age or older (the voting age population) minus the estimated number of
individuals who are not eligible to vote (such as non-citizens or individuals who do not have voting rights under law).

In 2018, Minnesota’s current estimated Voting Eligible Population is 4,064,389.* "

Interesting that eligible voters who are not necessarily registered voters is used for the denominator. The way they arrive at it gives this data analyst a headache.

[central scrutinizer]

6. Then MPR is probably correct

I don't know what the comparable denominator for Oregon is. We do have a motor voter law. Everybody who applies for a driver's license is automatically registered to vote. You can opt out if you want. Some people do, under the mistaken assumption that jury summons work off registered voter lists.