Larry the Legend wrote:
No, that is not necessarily true. Voter turnout is a percentage of those eligible to vote who then actually do vote. It has nothing to do with how many voters are eligible or what their social standing is. If you have a sum total of 2 voters, and one declines to vote, then you have a 50% voter turnout. If you have 100 million voters, and 50 million decline to vote, you still have a 50% voter turnout even though the difference in actual numbers is 49,999,999.
My muse in quoting those statistics was to wonder what would happen if the voter turnout kept declining as it has been over the last 200 years or so, taking it down to somewhere around 3%. At what point does an election become a farce? Clearly a vote from such a minority of voters could not be considered a mandate by any stretch. It's the old question, "what if they held an election and no-one showed up to vote?"
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Look at the mid terms, dems did not vote, percentages of non voters were huge, not so much in the general. But when we have more voters it seems we have more who do not bother to vote, just an opinion.