well they better get busy registering since many of the deadlines to do so are passing.
(b) non-conformists of various kinds, apolitical, including mentally challenged people...
HEY. I voted already :)
Full Disclosure. I HAVE NOT voted in some presidential elections because I figured it’s NY, why bother?
I did this time.
I ordered an absentee ballot because of an injury and it’s already been delivered.
IF I’M voting, then LOTS of people who usually don’t are.
I will never take my voting privilege for granted again.
What percentage of registered voters turn out? In Canada, you are registered through the census and can add your name by producing the right documents at a polling place. We don’t have electronic voting machines and we do have party observers (scrutineers) so voter fraud is very low — in close recount situations the only real change from the announced result is a handful of questionable ballots with odd markings that are disputed in court. In other words, we really do have a 68% turnout, not 60% where ten per cent vote twice and there’s a few thousand dead peoples’ votes.
I may be wrong, maybe our system is not all that good, there are mail-in segments to our voting that could be subject to fraud, I suppose, but they are usually less than one per cent of final results (people working a long way from home or travelling, mostly).
The only really bad thing about Canadian elections is who gets elected, whole different story there.