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During this country's last presidential election, 20 million single women did not vote.
Women's Voices, Women Vote, a nonprofit in Washington, is trying to reach those women and persuade them to cast ballots this year and in 2008. Reaching these voters is difficult, said Joe Goode, executive director of the group.
"Fifty percent of these single women live in households that make less than $30,000 a year," Goode said.
Those 20 million single women, he added, "make up about 24 percent of the voting-age population. But in the 2004 election, they were only 22 percent of the people who actually voted."
By contrast, Goode said, "married women comprise 28 percent of the voting population, but their participation was 31 percent in the last presidential (election)."
The 20 million figure, a projection by the U.S. Census Bureau, is based on a population survey conducted after 2004.
"When people hear it, they're like, 'How can that be?' We aren't even talking about the married women who don't vote. We focused on single women because we felt it was a targetable demographic," he added.
Women's Voices, Women Vote refers single women who are potential voters to Web sites so they can learn about political topics.
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