Numbers can teach us a lot, even when they are wrong.
The results of a survey, released Tuesday by the Utah Foundation, suggest an awful lot of people in this state think they are registered to vote even when they aren’t. Or that they think that they should be registered to vote. Or they think that it makes them look good to tell even an anonymous poll taker that they are registered.
These numbers should help our political leadership and activist organizations turn some of those unrealistically optimistic statistics into a more hopeful reality.
The fourth part of the foundation’s Millennials and Boomers survey, the part that charts attitudes and behaviors on social and political matters across different age cohorts, shows that upwards of 90 percent of eligible Utahns say they have registered to vote. But the official state statistics indicate that the percentage is closer to 66 percent.
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