A recent report by The New York Times
has indicated that an overwhelming majority of Americans, 91% of them, did not support or vote for Clinton or Trump in the recent
primary elections.
The figures were calculated from statistics that were gathered by the
U.S. Census Bureau, Federal Election Commission, Dave Leip’s Atlas of
U.S. Presidential Elections, The Sentencing Project, and the Pew
Research Center.
The figures illustrate that scores of people living in America are
not allowed to vote, they are considered ineligible due to their age,
prior arrests, or incomplete citizenship applications.
In total, there are 103 million people who are essentially banned from
voting, so this demographic would technically fall into the category of
people who did not support Trump or Clinton in the primaries, although
their actual preference can’t be determined.
Furthermore, there is an increasingly significant portion of the US
population that is deciding not to vote on principle, because they don’t
feel particularly enthusiastic about any of the candidates.
It was determined that 88 million people who were eligible to vote,
did not vote in the primaries, and will not be voting in the general
elections either. These are principled non-voters who have refused to
put their consent into a system that they don’t believe is legitimate.
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