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About 102 ¾ million civilians will be old enough to vote in the presidential election on November 6, 1956, according to estimates released today by the Bureau of the Census, Department of Commerce. The number of civilians who will be old enough to vote for the first time in a presidential election this November amounts to about 7.5 million – 3.3 million men and 4.2 million women. The total includes the civilian population 21 years old and over for all states and the civilian population 18 to 20 years old for Georgia and Kentucky, where persons as young as 18 years are permitted by law to vote. It does not include members of the Armed Forces for voting age, who number approximately 2.1 million.
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