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Originally Posted by kane
The apathy is in the numbers. 57% voter turnout is good? That is terrible. That means 43% of those eligible to vote either don't care enough or can't be bothered to take a few hours out of their day every few years to cast a ballot.
In my state we have a little higher than the national average. In the last election we had about 61% turnout. Here is the kicker. In my state we have vote by mail. They mail you the ballot. All you need to do is fill it out and put it back in the mail and you are done yet 40% of the people can't be bothered to do that.
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I just showed you historical numbers, if you consider 57% to be apathy then people have been apathetic since the turn of the LAST century - the last time voter turnout in a presidential election was 70% or better was 1900.
And it's not all apathy when people don't vote - I bet 10% or more of non-voters are people with major problems - physically disabled, serious illness, mentally ill, fucked up in some way. Then there are the dumb and the lazy, not sure I'd consider them apathetic, they are ignorant, many of them voluntarily ignorant and proud of it. Then you have the people who don't vote because they feel not voting is their political statement.