6 Responses to Where did all the voters go in 2012?

1. wayoutwest November 10th, 2012 at 5:22 pm 1

   These numbers do not include the newly eligible people so the actual percentage of non-voters is larger.

   It isn’t hard to tell why people didn’t vote, the system is completely corrupt and more people have decided Fuck The System and Boycotted it.

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2. elisemattu November 10th, 2012 at 6:03 pm 2

   My research showed there was more like 12 million people missing from the polls this past week.

   My other concern was the fact that the election results were announced at 2:12 Am following Election Night. This translates into an announcement “calling” the elections at only 11:12 Pm Pacific time. Polls here in Calif had been closed a mere three hours. Hawai’ian voters were still voting.

   Not only that, but as Jon Rapaport goes on to detail, the Prop 37 measure, a measure ensuring proper labeling for Gm foods, was considered to be a lost cause. This too was announced before midnight on Election Day here in California. By the time people woke up and went to work, they could read in their newspapers that Prop 37 had lost! Rappaport went on to discover that even 48 hours later that at the moment the “election results” were announced, a whopping 1.6 million ballots had not been counted in the California election. Since the Prop 37 measure was only “beaten back by a bit over a half million votes, it is deplorable that this is how the situation was handled.

   We the People now live inside a society wherein “scientific analysis” substitutes for the actual counting of the votes. This process now ensures that not only does the world of Big Corporate Sponsorship designate which people get to be candidates, it also ensures which propositions and issues are “winners.”

   As far as I am concerned, the entire election cycle was a proof of the failure of our society.

   And it well may mean that next time, I won’t bother to vote either. Why bother? My vote isn’t counted. It is still in the provisional ballot box t the local county!

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3. normanb November 10th, 2012 at 7:06 pm 3

   In response to elisemattu @ 2

   If I remember correctly, 1980 Election was called around 4pm Pacific Time, for Reagan. Lots of people out West decided not to vote as a result of the TV having already announced the result.

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4. Margaret November 10th, 2012 at 7:46 pm 4

   You are talking about the 2008 totals which have been established for four years. In most states, provisional votes have not even been counted yet, (for example the Ohio deadline to count them isn’t until the 17th a full week away), and those will add a few million to the totals but the states where the voting totals were down the most this year were also the states that were hit hard by Sandy. It’s really too early to tell how many fewer voters, (if any), cast ballots in 2012 than in 2008. I’m not arguing with your premise because it’s likely turnout was down, I’m just saying we don’t have enough data yet to speculate.

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5. RaggMopp November 10th, 2012 at 10:18 pm 5

   In response to wayoutwest @ 1

   I have never, since I was eligible, failed to vote in any election to which I had a right.

   But I sure had a hard time getting up for this one.

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6. Larue-Clique Member Since LibbyGate November 11th, 2012 at 4:21 am 6

   I question the veracity of the posits in this post regarding voter turnouts, due to lack of well, fucking veracity.

   Show me linky, Edited by Moderator.

   N then, I question WHY this Edited by Moderator would post such info without linky.

   Please, enlighten me. Edited by Moderator.

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