Showing posts with label nonvoters. Show all posts
Showing posts with label nonvoters. Show all posts
Wednesday, November 27, 2024
Tuesday, September 22, 2020
Nearly 100 Million Eligible Americans Didn’t Vote In 2016. Why Not? (The 1A)
For many people, voting is viewed as the foundation of American democracy. People fought and died for the right to cast a ballot. And some are still fighting to protect that right to this day. But almost 100 million eligible Americans didn’t vote in 2016.
While voting access has grown since women’s suffrage and the Civil Rights movement, the proportion of eligible voters to ballots cast has remained moderate. Despite being eligible to vote, voter turnout in presidential elections hasn’t cracked over 60 percent in more than 50 years.
The reason might be a combination of disenfranchisement, long lines, complicated mail-in-ballots, and even suppression. But that still doesn’t fully explain the politically disengaged that have eluded researchers for decades. So what gives?
We’re talking about why people don’t vote and what’s on their minds.
Interview:
https://the1a.org/segments/why-americans-dont-vote/
While voting access has grown since women’s suffrage and the Civil Rights movement, the proportion of eligible voters to ballots cast has remained moderate. Despite being eligible to vote, voter turnout in presidential elections hasn’t cracked over 60 percent in more than 50 years.
The reason might be a combination of disenfranchisement, long lines, complicated mail-in-ballots, and even suppression. But that still doesn’t fully explain the politically disengaged that have eluded researchers for decades. So what gives?
We’re talking about why people don’t vote and what’s on their minds.
Interview:
https://the1a.org/segments/why-americans-dont-vote/
Monday, February 24, 2020
Large swath of habitual nonvoters plan to vote in 2020, because Trump
Some of them fervently support Donald Trump and some adamantly oppose him, but either way, nearly three-quarters of habitual nonvoters plan to cast a ballot in November, according to a large Knight Foundation poll of the bloc.
The survey of 12,000 "persistent nonvoters" nationwide intended to learn about the bloc, why its members typically didn't vote, and whether 2020 might be influenced by them coming off the sidelines, according to NBC News. ....
https://www.dailykos.com/story/2020/2/19/1920408/-Large-swath-of-habitual-nonvoters-plan-to-vote-in-2020-because-Trump
https://www.dailykos.com/story/2020/2/19/1920408/-Large-swath-of-habitual-nonvoters-plan-to-vote-in-2020-because-Trump
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