While the MSM pushes that meme the International database does not support it.
“The Voter Turnout Database is the best resource for a wide array of statistics on voter turnout from around the world. It contains the most comprehensive global collection of voter turnout statistics from presidential and parliamentary elections since 1945.
Always growing, the database also includes European Parliament elections, as presented by country using both the number of registered voters and voting age population as indicators, and in some cases the data includes statistics on spoilt ballot rate. The easy-to-use database allows you to search for data by country or field, and even download all the data from the database in one file.”
http://www.idea.int/data-tools/question-countries-view/521/295/ctr
2016 68.29 %
2014 42.50 %
2012 64.44 %
2010 48.59 %
2008 64.36 %
2006 47.52 %
2004 68.75 %
2002 45.31 %
2000 63.76 %
1998 51.55 %
1996 65.97 %
I am skeptical of the presidential elections there if that is what they are because some of those numbers seem very inflated by any other data I have seen on US presidential elections, and very very inflated for congressional elections in off years. For instance they have 2004 being 12% higher than any other place I have ever seen. Also they have 1968 having 89% turnout? That’s 30% or so higher than any other place I have seen.
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