FactCheck.org: Sanders Wrong on Voter Turnout

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31. CNN: Voter turnout at 20-year low in 2016

You really need to blame CNN for this if they got it wrong not Sanders. He probably read this report months ago and it stuck with him.

Washington (CNN)Voter turnout this year dipped to nearly its lowest point in two decades.

While election officials are still tabulating ballots, the 126 million votes already counted means about 55% of voting age citizens cast ballots this year.
That measure of turnout is the lowest in a presidential election since 1996, when 53.5% of voting-age citizens turned out.
As election officials go through outstanding ballots -- such as provisional ballots and those with write-ins -- the turnout figures will change.
But it would take another 18.7 million votes to reach the high point for turnout of 2008, when nearly 64% of voting age citizens cast a ballot.
Early results in some of the key states that propelled President-elect Donald Trump to his win reveal that more voters cast ballots this year than in 2012, even though overall turnout was down.

More:

http://www.cnn.com/2016/11/11/politics/popular-vote-turnout-2016/