Is it my imagination or is that number extremely low?
I predicted to the lib I work with that voter turnout this election would be far lower than last time and he was adamant that it would be high; it should be a lot higher if it’s going to meet the numbers from four years ago, shouldn’t it?
I expected it to be low but I didn’t think it would be this bad; if this number doesn’t spike it’s going to be worse than 2016.
wait is there a voteball game on right now?
Death to America
this will probably be the last one I bother with
fuck this shit
the machine will continue operating whether or not the rituals are performed
Edit
Fucking google fucking SEO garbage articles. I googled yet more and I finally found something useful.
Early voting map: How to make sense of 2024 presidential election data
Oct. 31, 2024
That chart compares the number of 2024 early voters to the total number of voters in past years, not early voters in past years. That article includes another chart which shows a comparison with 2020 early voting:
So Dems are definitely in a worse place than 2020, but maybe they’re not doing worse than in 2016
Um…if I’m understanding this chart right, this means the last time the numbers were this low was 2014?
Unless I’m making a mistake - the blue bars are the key thing: “by mail or before election day”. 2014 was 31.1.
The bars are shares, though. Assuming @vegeta1@hexbear.net’s number of 154 million, 71 million is 46% of 2020’s numbers
But 2020 was also unusually high-turnout and I’m assuming more people will vote in person this time around due to ending the covid restrictions, so I’m assuming the final proportion will be higher.
Ah, okay, I misunderstood the chart (like…grossly misunderstood the chart)
what is there to vote for?
how will anyone’s material conditions change based on the winner?
2020 was the first time early voting was so common I think. I’d be surprised if 2024 surpasses 2020’s total just because of that.
