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The United States Election Project had similar findings, estimating apathy slightly higher: 46.9 percent of eligible voters did not vote in 2016. [43] Many Americans do not take the effort to learn the voting process, as some see it as a burden. There is an overemphasis on the number of Americans who have claimed they voted.
One factor impacting voter turnout of Black Americans is that, as of the 2000 election, 13% of Black American males are reportedly ineligible to vote nationwide because of a prior felony conviction; in certain states – Florida, Alabama, and Mississippi – disenfranchisement rates for Black American males in the 2000 election were around 30% ...
Nearly 100 million eligible voters sat out the 2016 election, continuing a trend of low turnout in the U.S. What compels people to stay home on election day?
In the United States, a 2006 survey indicated that 2% of those who did not register to vote cited religious reasons. [2] The same survey reported that 22% of voting-age Americans are not registered to vote, meaning that 0.4% of all voting-age Americans did not register to vote for religious reasons. [2]
The 2024 presidential election is expected to be close, with a recent report describing the margins as "razor thin" in key swing states, and four underutilized techniques are proposed to increase ...
Dorman believes that most Americans, if asked, wouldn’t be able to point to a specific claim of voter fraud from the 2020 election that they believe is true. “But people have a generalized ...
Empty promises and failed policy have convinced many that a vote doesn't matter. Column: Another anemic election turnout. Why most people don't vote, and what to do about it
Voter suppression has historically been used for racial, economic, gender, age and disability discrimination. After the American Civil War, all African-American men were granted voting rights, but poll taxes or language tests were used to limit and suppress the ability to register or cast a ballot.