• WaxiestSteam69@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    I don’t know if you’re from Louisiana but the percentage of voters electing these guys is much higher than 20%.

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      7 months ago

      I’m from Louisiana. This person is referring to the abysmal voter turnout. They said 20% of the population, not 20% of the voters.

      Given that only about 36% of the eligible voting population even turned out to vote, this is accurate.

      With that turnout it literally only takes 20% of the population to enable shit like this.

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        7 months ago

        Australia had a bad turnout once and the illegitimate government got tired of being rightfully called illegitimate and said from now on everyone votes, and it helped a little bit.

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          That might help here, except that Republicans actively label attempts to raise the voter turnout as a Democrat power grab, and Republicans are the only ones with any power. It’ll never happen

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          I always wondered how it came about, Wws the govt that introduced it rewarded by being proven to be illegitimate? I could easily imagine they’d get pounded at the next election just for forcing people to come out and vote when they’d rather not!