Quotes About Voter turnout

In the past the great majority of minority voters, in Ohio and other places that means African American voters, cast a large percentage of their votes during the early voting process.

Voting has proliferated in the United States, and it has reached a point where there is now almost one vote available per citizen over the age of eighteen.

If we go by the National Popular Vote, we'll get more people voting.

Democrats did not lose control of the Senate because African Americans did not vote. Actually, as supported by preliminary exit poll data, the complete opposite is the case. African Americans increased as a proportion of the electorate in 2014 over 2010.

When politics is interesting, people go vote.

I feel that one of the reasons Brexit happened was that people stayed at home rather than going to the polls.

Republicans won in 2010 and 2014 because some 40 million fewer Americans vote in midterms than in presidential elections, and a substantial majority of those 40 million is inclined toward the Democrats.

You can't complain or have a say if you don't vote.

That is enough to win a three-way presidential race. If young people understand they have the numbers and they have the power to come out and turn this election on its head.

According to the U.S. Census, the most common reason people give for not voting is that they were too busy or had conflicting work or school schedules.

It's a shame and a disgrace that so few people take part in the political process.

A lot of politicians say they want to get people out to vote; sometimes you can't totally believe they really want that.

When it comes to scaring the bourgeoisie into showing up at the polls, nothing works better than negative advertising.

People don't wake up to go to vote and then have their ballot not counted.

Get out there and vote like your lives depend on it.

There are not very many people who go out and vote in primaries. So to get elected in a particular district, you have to appeal to the five people who vote in the primary.

What most people didn't realize in the Western countries is that here its not a question of having supporters, its a question of getting these votes to the polling stations.

The largest party in America, by the way, is neither the Democrats nor the Republicans. It's the party of non-voters.

The winner of the elections which saw the participation of almsot 30 million people was the Iranian nation and the losers were those who tried to keep people away from the polls.

Texas is not really a red state - it's just a non-voting state.

The Effects of Canvassing, Telephone Calls, and Direct Mail on Voter Turnout: A Field Experiment,

Any time you have, you know, upwards of 90 percent of a demographic voting against somebody, that's a statement.

I love voting day. I love the sight of my fellow citizens lining up to make their voices heard.

In societies where incomes and educational levels are low, it is often far easier to get supporters to the polls based on a promise of an individual benefit rather than a broad programmatic agenda.