rolling explaining non-voters

42% of eligible voters didn't cast a ballot in the 2016 general election

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/updates/voter-turnout-2016-elections/

if i take the day off i'll lose my job

It's ridiculously difficult to register. My polling place is impossibly far away. It's almost as if someone is doing this on purpose...

voter suppression
voter intimidation
understaffed/overcrowded polling places

donald trump is an asshole. but democrats are stuck up

the electoral college

Politics don't matter

Social studies was stupid and boring.

neither candidate supports my views

forgot to register in time

forgot to send off postal ballot in time

(I've done both of these)

I know who says it's because they don't want the government to know their address

My vote won't change anything.

*know one, xp

What the fuck is the point of voting if Bernie doesn't win

There's an election?

It happened [. . .] because of countless hours of work organizing, knocking on doors, planning, and money to fund it all. It took lots of people simply deciding to take the effort to vote.

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/get-real-thoughts-on-last-nights-anti-trump-wave

"They're all a bunch of crooks."

"I don't follow any of that stuff. I don't know anything about it."

"I'm working three part time jobs and the kid has been sick a lot lately."

that last one tho... just hold yer voting on the weekend like we do! midweek voting is just nuts

Ppl still wouldn't do it, we need a natl holiday

Last November, at age 31, the Grammy-winning soul artist voted in his first presidential election. "Politics, I didn't have a personal interest," Miguel admits. "I didn't really care. What is my one vote? That was my attitude."

You need compulsory voting. People think we're insane for it but it means everyone's had their say at least (for better or worse)

midweek voting is just nuts

Yes, true. But our Tuesday election day for presidential and congressional elections is written in the US Constitution and it would require an amendment to change it.

Or expand vote by mail and give people three weeks

You need compulsory voting. People think we're insane for it but it means everyone's had their say at least (for better or worse)

If there's a section of voters in the last election who voted Trump just because "hey, let's burn the whole thing down" or "it'll make ppl who annoy me angry", how much larger is that contingent going to be if you make voting mandatory?

If we adopted compulsory voting, I guess we'd find out.

both sides are bad

winners don't care if russia holds kompromat over the POTUS

NFL

neither party is going to do a whole lot to materially improve my lot or that of my children, seeing as they've both taken turns steering the decline at varying speeds