- In any given US election, 35-60% of all eligible voters don’t vote.
- FiveThirtyEight polled 8,000 people (and analyzed the voting history of 6,000) and divided them into nearly always (31%), sometimes (44%), and rarely or never (25%) voters.
- While there’s little difference between people who always and sometimes vote, people who rarely or never vote are more likely to be young, un-educated and/or poor.
- Non-voters face more barriers to voting and are most likely to believe that voting won’t change anything.
