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Originally Posted by Iowa_Flames_Fan
It's also somewhat overblown. Voter turnout in 2016 (while still not great compared to other developed countries) was actually up slightly from 2012.
Honesty, I suspect that voter turnout is low in the US by design. No other democracy that I'm aware of makes it as hard for its citizens to vote.
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No need to suspect, the GOP is quite open and shameless about it's voteblocking policies.
It's also the system. Not very encouraging to vote in states that are permanently "red" or "blue".
At least there's some push in the US to modernize their voting system. (And I don't mean electronic voting.) I think in general countries should take a hard look at the details of their voting systems.