• fonix232@fedia.io
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    4 days ago

    Voter turnout was abysmal. 64.3%. Less than 2/3 of the country bothered to even vote.

    Don’t tell me that people voted when a third of those with the right to vote didn’t bother to go and fill a fucking ballot.

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        4 days ago

        The very article you quoted accounts for ~10 million votes.

        The remaining 34% who didn’t vote is approximately 80 million people.

        So we’re still at a point where 70 million where content with whatever happened. 70 million didn’t even bother to stand up and cast their votes.

        (oh, and that’s not accounting for the shift the voter suppression would cause in the count of “eligible for voting” people).

        • lIlIlIlIlIlIl@lemmy.world
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          4 days ago

          You still don’t understand voter suppression

          This is so confidently incorrect it’s hilarious

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            3 days ago

            Just report, block, and move on. They aren’t from here, they’re either unwilling or unable to hear you out, and no one is going to say anything to them that will earnestly make them change their mind. What is this, 2007? Why are we still doing flame wars? Don’t feed the trolls, they don’t deserve your attention.

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            4 days ago

            I do understand it.

            You, however, seem to fail to grasp how it affects voter numbers and their analytics.

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              4 days ago

              It’s the fall back excuse

              ‘Don’t know, don’t understand’

              It’s generally the first choice because it’s easy, lazy and doesn’t require further backup

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        4 days ago

        Yeah. It’s an excuse you use, like a few others

        Ones you don’t afford countries that genuinely have voter suppression