Showing posts with label Voting. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Voting. Show all posts

Tuesday, July 3, 2007

44.96%

In 2005, Virginia only had 44.96% of registered voters turnout...but this was 1.98 million people. Virginia currently has a population of 7.6 million. 75.4% of those are over 18, or about 5.73 million (but not all can vote e.g. aliens, felons..)
If 5 million citizens in Virginia can actually vote, that means that over 3 million did not vote. Why did they not vote? I know politics-as-usual tells us that they will not vote no matter what we do, but I believe that is because non-voters feel disenfranchised with the good ole boys network.

You have to speak about issues that affect all Americans, not just voter profiles. Even if you get 10% of non-voters to come out, that is 300,000 votes. Most non-voters would vote Democrat, no doubt.

Let's channel that energy.