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by gruez 585 days ago
>That would be my guess as to both why Trump got elected and why voting isn't very popular.

A turnout of 63.5% isn't popular? Even compared to past elections it's the second highest turnout in the past 3 decades. The highest was in 2020.
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ZeroGravitas 585 days ago
First past the post systems generally have lower turnout than proportional systems. Even record turnout for the US isn't very high in international terms.

And if that record turnout is to support and/or oppose a candidate that seeks to burn the whole system down and gets votes due to the system not reflecting voters priorities for a while then it further supports my theory.

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JumpCrisscross 585 days ago
> record turnout for the US isn't very high in international terms

Who are you comparing it to? The U.S. is middle of the pack in the OECD [1].

The highest-turnout countries are Equitorial Guinea, Rwanda and Turkmenistan [2]. None are democracies.

[1] https://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/docserver/reg_glance-2009-35-e...

[2] https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/voter-tur...

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soco 583 days ago
Switzerland has usually a less than 50% turnout, for a comparison - and still gets brownie points for democracy. Yes, I'm sad myself, but I'll still take it over any other systems.
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