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Just curious. What percentage of eligible citizens are actually registered to vote?
My son-in-law is on active duty in the Navy . He and my daughter applied online for Indiana absentee ballots but did not get them.
I think that since Indiana is so reliably a “red state”, there is a certain complacency that keeps people from getting out to vote. Republicans feel there is no need because, well, it’s Indiana and Democrats feel like their vote won’t matter. Which is to say, if the Democrats could could actually do something to energize and engage their base in this state, they could probably have some real impact on who is representing us. But there just isn’t any engagement. Zero.
This, 100%. My wife and I voted and our best guess… nearly everyone voting that day was 60+ years old and voting red. No young people were voting.
Indiana Democrats were their usual inept self this election, just like they are every election.
In Marion County the Dems sure took the prosecutor’s office and 7th Congressional district by wide margins. Please don’t tell me that was rural gop old folks.
Just a heads-up: the voter stats referenced above lists 34,000+ registered voters in Decatur County… the population of the County is 26,320. Someone needs to check their math…
Bryan, the number of registered voters in Decatur County does not appear in this story. Could you be more specific about where you got that figure and we’ll look into it?
Sorry for the delay in getting back– From the same site that was offered above (https://enr.indianavoters.in.gov/site/index.html) if you click on “voter statistics” at the top, for the November 8, 2022 midterm election, it has Decatur County listed as having 34K+ registered voters– well beyond the total population of the county. I’m sure it was a data entry mistake, but in calculating the percentage of voter participation this wrong number causes the result to be misleading. I haven’t checked the numbers for any other counties.
A significant reason for low turnout is gerrymandering when redistricting. Also known as the process in which the political party in power chooses their voters as oppose to the democratic process of the voters choosing their representatives.
The proof is in the numbers (so why vote):
55% of the total voters in Indiana vote Republican.
45% of the total voters in Indiana vote Democrat.
80% of the Indiana Senate are Republicans.
71% of the Indiana House are Republicans.