America Counts: Stories Behind the Numbers
What Recent Elections Tell Us About the American Voter Today
With voting registration deadlines for the November election drawing near, statistics from previous elections tell us how people register and their likelihood of registering and voting.
In recent elections, more than one in four registered voters said they registered through their department of motor vehicles.
Other common ways, including registering in person at local government offices or mailing in a form to the election office, have declined over the past three elections while online registration has doubled since 2014.
Most registered voters vote. Nationally, 61% of the citizen voting-age population said they voted in 2016, ranging from a high of 73% in Maine to a low of 47% in Hawaii. That means, on average almost 9 in 10 registered voters cast a ballot.
Continue reading about turnout for presidential elections and demographic data from the 2018 midterm elections.
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