I don’t know man, it seem like a pretty huge data outlier. Just search around to different places and compare.
But you are right about skepticism in general and I’m not dismissing any possibility. So lets ask ourselves what reasons would there be for a mass conspiracy effort to hide voter apathy by falsifying voter turnout numbers or what reasons would there be to hide voter participation by falsifying voter turnout numbers?
In my gut I am thinking the simplest solution is that the folks who care about politics and participate have a tendency to simply over estimate the number of people who care as much as they do. I suspect there is a large number of folks who simply have no political philosophy they can rationally articulate.
FReegards
When I see statistics showing low voter turnout, I often wonder if they're counting someone like my friend as one voter and three non-voters even though he's only one person.