5/27/2023 0 Comments The year we fell down![]() This year, some political analysts are predicting another heavy turnout in this month’s midterms. The 2020 voting surge followed unusually high turnout in the 2018 midterm elections, when about 47.5% of the voting-age population – and 51.8% of voting-age citizens – went to the polls. More than 158.4 million people voted in that election, according to a Pew Research Center tabulation of official state returns, amounting to 62.8% of people of voting age, using Census Bureau estimates of the 2020 voting-age population. general election soared to levels not seen in decades, fueled by the bitter campaign between Joe Biden and Donald Trump and facilitated by pandemic-related changes to state election rules. ![]() Tellers in Seoul, South Korea, count ballots from the May 2017 presidential election. ![]()
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