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In reply to the discussion: I have seen a lot on DU, but advocating not voting sure jumps the shark [View all]A Simple Game
(9,214 posts)someone to be elected. How do you know who the non-voter didn't vote for? Do all Republicans vote? Is it only Democrats that don't vote? Only liberals? Only millennials? Is it possible for one non-vote to cancel out another non-vote? I voted so how many non-votes did my vote cancel?
My god! What ever you do, don't tell the Republicans, they'll want to have hearing about all this non-voter fraud!
Where can I view the statistics on who the non-voters would have voted for if they had voted?
Please let me know how you can make such a statement and have it be true?
Non-voters are going to bring about a crisis? Seems not to have worked for the last, oh 100 years or so. You ever notice what percentage of eligible voters actually vote?
There was a poster a couple of days ago blaming the millennials for the poor Democratic party performance on Tuesday. Said the Democrats lost because of poor millennial turnout. I guess the poster never checked the history of young people voting. Young people don't turn out in large numbers to vote, never have probably never will. If you base your chances of winning on the youth vote, you probably don't deserve to win.
We will never find the solution if we don't recognize the problem. It's not the voters, it's the candidates.