Overturning Roe didn’t push the left to vote though. 2022 had terrible turnout, not that 2020 was great.
In TX in 2020 when everyone was rallying to vote out Trump, only ~52% of the Voting Age population cast a vote. Then in 2022 after Roe was overturned and knowing that all of the legislative branch and a large chunk of the judicial and executive branches were up for election, only ~37% of the Voting Age population turned out to vote.
I know that major elections without the presidential vote get less people, but that’s a huge drop-off with everything at stake. That’s even with 40 years of early voting in the state and a recent expansion of early voting where polls are required to be open at least 9 hours in week 2 and at least 12 hours in week 2 and the final day of voting.
I’m really concerned that we’re going to have a republican president in 2024, there was at least some action from the left in 2020 to get rid of trunp (even if it wasn’t enough to keep the house) but all that fire is gone.
It was a little under half of registered voters in TX, but that’s still not good.
In 2022, there was about 21.8 million in the voting age population, 17.6 million were registered to vote, and only 8.1 cast a ballot.
In 2020 the numbers were 21.6 million voting age population, 17 million registered, and 11.3 million ballots.
If we hope to affect change in the country, people need to get out there and vote! Polls are open in TX for 12 hours for an entire week, but we still have people waiting to vote on the last day when there’s a line.
Driving passed polling places and having lived in most of the metro areas of TX, I’ve never seem or heard of a line more than 15-20 minutes in the 2 weeks of early voting. It would be super beneficial too if we had momentum at the local level to push for some of the polling places to be open until 10 PM as is allowed by law.
Overturning Roe didn’t push the left to vote though. 2022 had terrible turnout, not that 2020 was great.
In TX in 2020 when everyone was rallying to vote out Trump, only ~52% of the Voting Age population cast a vote. Then in 2022 after Roe was overturned and knowing that all of the legislative branch and a large chunk of the judicial and executive branches were up for election, only ~37% of the Voting Age population turned out to vote.
I know that major elections without the presidential vote get less people, but that’s a huge drop-off with everything at stake. That’s even with 40 years of early voting in the state and a recent expansion of early voting where polls are required to be open at least 9 hours in week 2 and at least 12 hours in week 2 and the final day of voting.
I’m really concerned that we’re going to have a republican president in 2024, there was at least some action from the left in 2020 to get rid of trunp (even if it wasn’t enough to keep the house) but all that fire is gone.
That’s just Texas. Overall about 1/2 of voters voted in 2022 which is pretty good for the US.
https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2023/07/12/voter-turnout-2018-2022/
It was a little under half of registered voters in TX, but that’s still not good.
In 2022, there was about 21.8 million in the voting age population, 17.6 million were registered to vote, and only 8.1 cast a ballot.
In 2020 the numbers were 21.6 million voting age population, 17 million registered, and 11.3 million ballots.
If we hope to affect change in the country, people need to get out there and vote! Polls are open in TX for 12 hours for an entire week, but we still have people waiting to vote on the last day when there’s a line.
Driving passed polling places and having lived in most of the metro areas of TX, I’ve never seem or heard of a line more than 15-20 minutes in the 2 weeks of early voting. It would be super beneficial too if we had momentum at the local level to push for some of the polling places to be open until 10 PM as is allowed by law.