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title: "Six Take-Aways from the Census Bureau’s Voting Report"
description: "A report from the Census Bureau on the diversifying American electorate in 2012 confirms an historic turnout milestone first noted last December by the Pew Research Center, but undercuts a number of other widely-reported demographic analyses of last year’s presidential vote."
date: "2013-05-08"
authors:
  - name: "Michael Suh"
    job_title: "Guest Contributor"
url: "https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2013/05/08/six-take-aways-from-the-census-bureaus-voting-report/"
---

# Six Take-Aways from the Census Bureau’s Voting Report

A report from the Census Bureau on the diversifying American electorate in 2012 confirms an historic turnout milestone first noted last December by the Pew Research Center, but undercuts a number of other widely-reported demographic analyses of last year’s presidential vote.