Title: By the Numbers: Americans Voting and Election Day
Headings: Voting By the Numbers: Americans and Election Day
Democracy & Government
Voting By the Numbers: Americans and Election Day
It's finally time to cast your vote. Here are some of the stats to improve on this Nov. 8.
Voting in America
Voting Restrictions and Fraud
Karin Kamp
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Content: If you don’t like any of the candidates running for president today, you can blame over 70 percent of your fellow Americans. That’s because just 28.5 percent of estimated eligible voters cast a ballot in the 2016 Republican and Democratic primaries. While a record number of Americans have voted ahead of Election Day, with at least 46.27 million people casting ballots by early voting, according to Associated Press data, voter turnout in America is notoriously dismal compared to other developed countries. In August, Pew Research ranked the US 31 out of 35 countries on voter turnout based on the voting age population among nations that are part of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. Voting in America
Number of Americans registered to vote in 2016: 200 million
Estimated number of voting-age Americans who won’t cast a ballot: 80 to 100 million
Percentage of eligible voters who cast a ballot in the 2012 presidential elections: 53.6 percent
Percentage who turned out in 2014 elections: 36.4 percent
Last time turnout was that low: 1942
Voting Restrictions and Fraud
Number of states with new voting restrictions, including limitations on voter registration, in place for the 2016 election: