How ‘Drop-Off’ Voters Differ From Consistent Voters and Nonvoters

By artappraiser on Wed, 10/04/2017 - 5:15pm |

The 2018 midterm elections will be determined in large part by who goes to the polls and who stays home. Historically, far fewer Americans turn out to vote in midterm than presidential elections and in 2014, turnout hit a 70-year low.

A new Pew Research Center analysis finds that “drop-off” voters – those who voted in the 2012 and 2016 presidential elections but not the 2014 midterm, differed in many ways from consistent voters, who voted in all three of these elections, and nonvoters. In this report, nonvoters are those who were registered to vote, but did not cast ballots in any of the most recent national election [....]

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http://www.people-press.org/2017/09/14/how-drop-off-voters-differ-from-consistent-voters-and-non-voters/