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SpokenTruth said:
Mbolibombo said:
How many % of eligible voters usually vote in the US?

Sadly, far too few.  We get about 60% voter turnout during presidential elections and 40% voter turnout during the midterms (like this one).

 

Other countries look at us rather confused because we push 'democracy' all over the world and then don't even exercise it ourselves.

In Belgium people need to go vote or get fined heavily and that results in a lot of people just voting on whatever propaganda the media trows at them, i am sure that also happens over there but maybe you guys have a lesser percentage of those kind of voters.

Proper neutral politicial education would be handy but such a thing could be easily corrupted sadly.