FACTOID # 1: The total number of state executions in 2005 was 60: 19 in Texas and 41 elsewhere. The racial split was 19 Black and 41 White.
 
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The Midwest > Kansas > Government

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1972 Election > Youth voter turnout 10% [10th of 41]
2000 Election > Youth voter turnout 20% [20th of 41]
2004 Election > Total registered voters 32 [32nd of 51]
2004 Election > Total voted 32 [32nd of 51]
2004 Election > Total votes as percentage 32% [32nd of 51]
2004 Election > Voting age population 33 [33rd of 51]
2004 Election > Youth voter turnout 38% [38th of 41]
congressional apportionment > 1920-present > 1970 28 [28th of 50]
Electoral Votes 32 [32nd of 51]
Gun Laws > Permits
A permit is not required to purchase a firearm. State law does not provide for a permit to carry a concealed firearm.
Gun Laws > Prohibited firearms
It is a criminal use of a weapon to knowingly sell, manufacture, purchase, possess, or carry a shotgun with a barrel less than 18 inches in length or any other firearm designed to discharge or capable of discharging automatically more than once by a single function of the trigger. This prohibition does not apply to certain persons.
Gun Laws > Prohibited persons
It is illegal to knowingly transfer a firearm with a barrel less than 12 inches to a person under 18 years of age, or to knowingly transfer a firearm to a person who is both addicted to and an unlawful user of a controlled substance, or has been convicted of a felony described in the criminal disposal of firearms statute. A firearm cannot be possessed by a person who is both addicted to and an unlawful user of a controlled substance, or has been convicted of a felony or adjudicated as a juvenile offender, under circumstances described in the criminal possession of a firearm statute. A person less than 18 years of age cannot knowingly possess a firearm with a barrel less than 12 inches except in limited circumstances.
Patents Issued 34 [34th of 54]
Seats in the House of Representatives 32 seats [32nd of 50]
Senate elections, 2004 > Senate contests in 2004 > Incumbent Sam Brownback
Senate elections, 2004 > Senate contests in 2004 > Opponents
Lee Jones (D) 28%
Stephen A. Rosile (L) 2%
George Cook (Ref) 1%
Senate elections, 2004 > Senate contests in 2004 > Party Republican
Senate elections, 2004 > Senate contests in 2004 > Result
Re-elected to 2nd term:
Sam Brownback (R) 69%
State court > Nomenclature > Court of Last Resort Supreme Court
State court > Nomenclature > Intermediate Appellate Court Court of Appeals

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SOURCES: CIRCLE, The Center for Information and Reasearch on Civic Learning and Engagement; U.S. Census Bureau, Current Population Survey, 2005.; Wikipedia: United States congressional apportionment ; FirstGov Official Government website; Bureau of Justice Statistics, 2003; United States Patent and Trademark Office; The United States House of Representatives; Wikipedia: United States Senate elections, 2004 ; Wikipedia: State court

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