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: 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: 14
Percentage of voters unaware their state requires or requests voter ID: 22 percent
Number of voting places closed down in South following the 2013 Shelby County v. Holder Supreme Court decision weakening the Voting Rights Act: 868+
From 2000 to 2014, number of cases of impersonation fraud out of a billion ballots: 31
(Sorry Donald, but it’s just not true!) Number of people who can’t vote because they’ve been convicted of felony-level crimes: