Post by Logan on Apr 8, 2016 3:19:19 GMT -6
WASHINGTON — North Dakota, which for years has produced Selective Service sign-up rates of 90 to 99 percent, saw a precipitous drop-off in 2014, leaving it second-worst among the states and territories at 57 percent.
The only area of the country with a worse sign-up rate in 2014 for men born in 1995 was the District of Columbia at 34 percent, the Selective Service reports. The national average for sign-up in 2014 was 88 percent.
Scott Rising of Bismarck, the state director for the Selective Service, said he doesn’t know why the state’s sign-up number plummeted in one year.
“I’m gonna guess it’s some kind of mistake in the data,” Rising said. “For the most part, people in North Dakota comply with the law. I don’t know what to say.”
Read more: bismarcktribune.com/news/state-and-regional/north-dakota-selective-service-sign-up-rate-plummets/article_59d809ea-957c-5759-91ed-820d9d08424d.html
The only area of the country with a worse sign-up rate in 2014 for men born in 1995 was the District of Columbia at 34 percent, the Selective Service reports. The national average for sign-up in 2014 was 88 percent.
Scott Rising of Bismarck, the state director for the Selective Service, said he doesn’t know why the state’s sign-up number plummeted in one year.
“I’m gonna guess it’s some kind of mistake in the data,” Rising said. “For the most part, people in North Dakota comply with the law. I don’t know what to say.”
Read more: bismarcktribune.com/news/state-and-regional/north-dakota-selective-service-sign-up-rate-plummets/article_59d809ea-957c-5759-91ed-820d9d08424d.html