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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Skepticism is always good.
Looking over their site I see little to fault. The methodology is defined at the bottom of this page.
http://www.idea.int/data-tools/data/voter-turnout
They partner with ACE, the UN, Bridges on providing information about the state of elections and Democracy, ie transparency.
Constitutionnet.org considers them positively http://www.constitutionnet.org/event/international-idea-intensive-fellowship-constitution-makers
Perhaps for their own reasons the MSM has again been snowing us for their masters’ purposes to demoralize and fragment our resolve?
They have a Political Finance database as well.
The IDEA can be directly accessed at:
http://www.idea.int/political-finance/index.cfm