Numbers Update and How Participatory Our Democracy Is

[ancianita]

3. Close to that, but we'd have to know the registered number, which I don't have.

The last registered voter number I have for 2016 is 214,109,360, (I think I found it in a census table but didn't keep the link, sorry) which is more than now. Why, I can't say. I thought registrations went way up this year, but deaths occurred, and voter rolls were purged, so who knows.

This keeping of numbers across election cycles is partly why we can't have fact-base discussions, I'm finding. Or useful discussions about who the registereds represent.

This year, it looks so far -- we won't know 'til all votes are counted -- that 66,041,197 registered voters didn't vote. I'm always upset about people who would take the time to register, but not the time to vote. And about the adult population that won't even do either.