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News Articles - Single women’s advocacy group eyes Iowa turnout
July 31, 2008
By Douglas Burns
Read the original article at The Iowa Independent.
You Count. Be Counted! a nationwide voter registration drive will begin today, targeting 65,483 unmarried women in Iowa. The drive is being run by the national organization Women’s Voices Women Vote, which expects to register close to 1 million women nationwide between now and election day.
According to the most recent census data, unmarried women – women who are single, separated, divorced, or widowed – make up a growing percent of the population. More than half of households nationwide are run by an unmarried woman. There are more than 230,000 unmarried women in Iowa.
In the past, unmarried women in Iowa and nationally have been underrepresented both in terms of registration and in actually showing up to vote. In 2006, 135,084 unmarried women in Iowa were eligible to register but did not; a further 111,288 were registered to vote but did not cast a ballot.
WVWV says it has registered more than 12,000 unmarried Iowa women to vote.