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Originally Posted by dino7c
where were all these people during the lowest voter turnout in 20 years?
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Well, nearly 65.9 million people voted for Clinton.
Another nearly 4.5 million voted for Gary Johnson.
Nearly 1.5 million for Jill Stein. Even Evan McMullen nearly managed a million votes.
So that's 70 million people or so who actively voted against Trump, against this administration. As huge as today's demonstrations were, there weren't 70 million people there.
Also there are plenty of people who marched today who for one reason or another were unable to vote in this presidential election. Plenty of people who aren't yet 18 and thus were unable to cast a ballot. People who are in college in the US but aren't citizens of the US.
Make no mistake, these people who protested and marched today, if they were able, they likely also voted in November. Everyone I know who marched today, also voted in November. They were also vocal in their disapproval of Trump before the election. These people were always there, but we were too busy whining about email servers to pay any attention.
And maybe, just maybe, voter turnout wouldn't be so low if the GOP wasn't trying to make it so much harder for people to actually go out and do it. Voter fraud is a myth (only 4 instances out of 135+ million votes cast in this past election), and yet we keep getting that hammered at by GOP leaders. We should make it easier to vote, not harder.
Fifteen states enacted new voting restrictions before the 2016 election, perhaps that had something to do with the low turnout?