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A reprint from The Southwestern Social Science Quarterly, 1933, 14, 3, Dec. The article reports on a study of voting behavior in Austin, Tex, in Apr, 1933, shortly after a municipal election in the city. The study covered all the 14,400 registered voters & r'ed voting habits with soc & demographic variables. The results of the study are discussed in the text of the article & summarized in charts. It was found that over 75% of the pop do not even qualify to vote & that only a small fraction of those who do actually voted. M's are over-represented in the electorate, & most married women vote only if their husbands vote, although the reverse is not true. The electorate & the voting pop are heavily weighted toward the upper econ groups & property owners &, in terms of occup, toward mfg, public service & transportation. Voters tend to concentrate in the middle ages & non-voters in the extremes; people over 60 are heavily represented among voters because they do not pay the poll tax. The state of Tex, it was found, has elaborate laws on voting qualification, & some groups are favored while others are disenfranchised. The 2 last variables considered are nativity & race. The proportion of electors went in declining order from people born in the city, to people born in other cities of Tex, to those born in other states, to foreign born. Austin has 3 racial groups: whites, Negroes & Mexicans. The % of electors is higher among whites than among the other 2 groups, & within each group of electors, the % of voters is higher among whites. The Mexicans are below Negroes in both respects. COMMENT IN RETROSPECT-the author presents his comments in the form of answers to 3 questions that the Ed addressed to him. (1) Why did he do this res? Because Austin just had a municipal election in which the author played some part & in which his side lost. (2) What has been the impact of the article? Very little on other pol'al sci'ts. As for himself, he has rarely returned to voting behavior but used the methods in his later work. (3) What is his assessment of the article today? In terms of subject matter, it is as timely & relevant as at the time it was written. In terms of method, it is out of date. In terms of writing, it is pretentious & roundabout. A. Peskin.