[Ransomed]

I don’t know man, it seem like a pretty huge data outlier. Just search around to different places and compare.

But you are right about skepticism in general and I’m not dismissing any possibility. So lets ask ourselves what reasons would there be for a mass conspiracy effort to hide voter apathy by falsifying voter turnout numbers or what reasons would there be to hide voter participation by falsifying voter turnout numbers?

In my gut I am thinking the simplest solution is that the folks who care about politics and participate have a tendency to simply over estimate the number of people who care as much as they do. I suspect there is a large number of folks who simply have no political philosophy they can rationally articulate.

FReegards

[Alberta's Child]

I have a friend who is a lawyer. During the post-election recount nonsense last year he did a little research and confirmed that he's registered to vote in FOUR states. All of them were legitimate at different times in his life. He grew up in one state, went to college in a second, went to law school in a third, and now lives in a fourth ... and he dutifully registered to vote every place he lived. He voted once last year, and nobody voted illegally in his name in the other three states.

When I see statistics showing low voter turnout, I often wonder if they're counting someone like my friend as one voter and three non-voters even though he's only one person.