On voter turnout in Afghanistan’s 2009 election:
Given the fifty per cent turnout rates of 2005, and the much worse security environment and disillusionment in 2009, any turnout rate between forty and forty-five per cent in 2009 would seem to be quite good…
Voter turnout in Alberta’s 2008 Provincial Eleciton: 40.6%
(ht @archiemc for the New Yorker link)