Internet & Voting Statistics
from the California Voter Foundation

updated December, 1998


1. Percentage of 1996 U.S. voters who said they use the Internet regularly: 26

2. Percentage of 1998 U.S. voters who said they use the Internet regularly: 40

3. Number of Californians registered to vote in 1998: 15 million

4. Percentage of California voters with an email address in April, 1998: 42

5. Percentage of California voters with an email address in October, 1998: 52

6. Percentage of California voters who regularly use a computer at home, work or school: 70

7. Number of people who used the Internet in 1994: 3 million

8. Number of people who are using the Internet in 1998: 100 million

9. Estimated number of people who will be using the Internet by 2005: 1 billion

10. Of the 50 most wired cities in the U.S., number located in California: 7

11. Number of California campaigns with web sites on the Internet in 1994: 1

12. Number of California campaign web sites in 1996: 140

13. Number of California campaign web sites in 1998: 200

14. Percentage of Americans who say they recently started using computers: 3.9

15. Percentage of Californians who say they recently started using computers: 7.2

16. Rank of "too busy" among the reasons given by Californians for not voting in the 1996 election: 1

17. Number of visits to CVF's web site during the 1996 general election: 33,000

18. Number of pages retrieved from CVF's web site during the 1996 general election: 200,000

19. Number of visits to CVF's web site during the 1998 general election: 50,000

20. Number of pages retrieved from CVF's web site during the 1998 general election: 450,000

21. Number of pages retrieved from CVF's web site during all of 1998: 1 million