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If Clinton, Trump, and Did Not Vote were presidential candidates in 2016 (brilliantmaps.com)

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[–] TrippyFocus@lemmy.ml 79 points 3 months ago (3 children)

For anyone like myself that was interested in 2020:

Found it here (Although the data source is shown on the chart)

[–] fogstormberry@lemmy.blahaj.zone 41 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I think trump woke a lot of people up. clearly there's still ground to cover but it looks like clear progress in voter turnout

[–] empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 38 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (5 children)

Everyone was also at home/working from home/on flex schedules due to covid in 2020. People had time to vote, they had time to research things and take part in political discourse. Everyone always forgets that little historical tidbit.
2024 may hit record low voter turnout as the nazi's ratchet up anti voter laws, removing polling places, and companies keep putting the economic screws on their workers with stagnant pay and forced return-to-office so citizens don't have time to think about the political process.

[–] veroxii@aussie.zone 12 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Can Biden just say fuck it and declare a national holiday? Would that help at all? What about making voting mandatory like we have in Australia? You get a small fine if you don't vote which is usually enough incentive.

[–] empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 3 months ago

Having a national work holiday would do wonders for voter turnout. Most people in states who are required to vote in person can't get the time off to visit a poll booth while they're open.

[–] infeeeee@lemm.ee 7 points 3 months ago (2 children)

In most of the countries of the World elections are on Sunday and Saturday for this exact reason, US could change to weekend voting days as well:

Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/46ukem/so_camerons_eu_referendum_is_on_a_thursday_which/

[–] uis@lemm.ee 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Another confirmation that Russia is European country.

Also, US, please fix yet another thing you are worse at than Russia.

[–] infeeeee@lemm.ee 5 points 3 months ago

Who debated that. Historically, culturally Russia is European. Most of the population of Russia lives on the western side of the Urals.

But using it as a good example of elections, well... In the US you can choose from 2 candidates. In russia you can select from 1...

[–] empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 months ago

Yeah, I'd love voting on a Saturday tbh. There's still a lot of people working service schedules who wouldn't be able to, but that could also be fixed by universal vote by mail, or make it two separate days even.... really the answer is just to make it a damn mandatory holiday and call it.

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[–] ech@lemm.ee 10 points 3 months ago

2020 was the highest US voter turnout in over 100 years (percentage wise), and it was still atrocious. Also worth noting, trump got the second most votes of any presidential nominee in US history, thankfully beat by Biden, but it's not like all of the new voters were purely against trump.

[–] princessnorah@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 3 months ago

I think the most interesting thing about these two maps, is that Georgia kind of proves the people wrong who don't vote "because it wouldn't make a difference in my state".

[–] Pandantic@midwest.social 1 points 3 months ago

Oh good, Iowa sliding back into apathy where it belongs…