Because they are damn fools?
It even gets worse, go back to GWB’s 2004 numbers and it looks like over 5M white voters stayed home.
Because they voted and they haven’t been counted yet.
These moronic articles about a supposed Republican turnout gap need stop until the actual full vote totals are known.
As of today California ALONE has over 500,000 unprocessed ballots FROM ONLY SEVEN COUNTIES - most California counties haven’t even reported how many unprocessed ballots they have.
http://www.sos.ca.gov/elections/2012-elections/nov-general/pdf/unprocessed-ballots-report.pdf
We won’t know the actual total in California until December:
http://vote.sos.ca.gov/unprocessed-ballots-status/
“Unprocessed Ballots Status During each election cycle, hundreds of thousands of ballots are not counted on Election Day. Elections officials have approximately one month to complete their extensive tallying and certification work (known as the official canvass). Most notably, voting by mail has increased significantly in recent years and many vote-by-mail ballots arrive on Election Day. In processing vote-by-mail ballots, elections officials must confirm each voter’s registration status, verify each voter’s signature on the vote-by-mail envelope, and ensure each person did not vote elsewhere in the same election.
Other ballots that are processed after Election Day include provisional ballots (processed similar to vote-by-mail ballots), and ballots that are damaged or cannot be machine-read and must be remade by elections officials.
The Unprocessed Ballots Report (PDF) features unofficial county updates on the number of outstanding ballots that still need to be processed during the official canvass. This information is voluntarily reported by county elections officials and may not be complete. State law requires county elections officials to report their final results to the Secretary of State by December 7. The Secretary of State then has until December 14 to certify the results of the election.”