2016 Presidential election voter turnout report
MarkD:
Quote from: Virginia on March 18, 2017, 01:15:04 PM
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In addition, Hispanic turnout is hurt by the fact that a large proportion (up to 45%) of the Hispanic electorate consists of young voters, who have always had lower turnout through history.
What about the prospect that a large percentage of Hispanic population are simply non-citizens?
Virginiá:
Quote from: MarkD on March 22, 2017, 06:28:56 PM
What about the prospect that a large percentage of Hispanic population are simply non-citizens?
Yes, it does hurt if you look at turnout based on adult population. If you look at it vs eligible voters, not so much.
Clarence Boddicker:
Looks like a lot of the lower turnout states are non-competitive, which probably affects motivation to vote. Feels like a waste to vote in Tennessee when you know the Republican is gonna win anyway.
Virginiá:
Quote from: Clarence Boddicker on March 26, 2017, 10:13:24 AM
Looks like a lot of the lower turnout states are non-competitive, which probably affects motivation to vote. Feels like a waste to vote in Tennessee when you know the Republican is gonna win anyway.
It depends. There are different circumstances, especially depending on the level of voter access in any given state. For instance, states at the bottom are far from beacons of voting rights - Mississippi, South Carolina, Texas, etc, and states with things like all-mail voting, same-day voter registration and/or automatic voter registration are at the top. California is set to have same-day voter/auto voter registration and pilot all-mail voting/county-wide voting centers go live in 2018 (or may be active already), so we should see California move up this list quite a ways in 2020.
If Texas and New York implemented similar reforms, I have no doubt they would see substantial increases in voting. Unfortunately, only New York has a realistic chance of doing so, and even that won't be until at least 2019+ at the earliest.
Technocracy Timmy:
^"Plummeting" as the article suggests is a bit much but yeah it did decrease.
The first black president not being on the ballot this time around probably has a lot to do with that though. I'd also venture to guess that a lot of millennial black voters weren't excited by Hillary just like many white millennials weren't when compared to their enthusiasm for Obama.
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