Americans don't vote because they don't trust U.S. elections.

[Skeptic]

Americans don't vote because they don't trust U.S. elections.

Voter turnout rate is 58% and people don't vote because they don't trust the current ballot system.

https://www.presstv.com/DetailFr/2018/10/30/578553/Poll-Americans-Security-US-elections

Illegals voting with falsified information
Multiple votes
Russian hackers
Untrustworthy ballot counts

It all adds up to U.S. elections being a huge innacurate fraud. I don't trust the election results. What do you think?

[Free Vulcan]

Yet they vote for the people who deliberately corrupt it. At some point you get what you deserve.

[edpc]

I tend to think most that don’t vote trust the system, but not the politicians.

[bigheadfred]

I tend to think most that don’t vote trust the system, but not the politicians.

Personally, it is a combination of both. Aimed more at the national level.

[Bigun]

[Sanguine]

I suspect people don't vote because they're lazy, uninformed and/or don't think their vote will affect how the system runs.

[RetBobbyMI]

The whole system is corrupt by being clouded in corruption by the very politicians seeks to hold their seat or steel one.

[bigheadfred]

I suspect people don't vote because they're lazy, uninformed and/or don't think their vote will affect how the system runs.

You pegged me on every count this last go round.

[Bigun]

I suspect people don't vote because they're lazy, uninformed and/or don't think their vote will affect how the system runs.

Ten years ago the people of Harris County Texas voted overwhelmingly to tear the money-losing Astrodome down yet the thing is still standing and the taxpayer money is still flowing down the rat hole in large quantities. 

One single example of why people don't vote.

[Wingnut]

I suspect people don't vote because they're lazy, uninformed and/or don't think their vote will affect how the system runs.

As long as it keeps your average Millennial and snowflakes away and not "woke"  that is a good thing.

[edpc]

Ten years ago the people of Harris County Texas voted overwhelmingly to tear the money-losing Astrodome down yet the thing is still standing and the taxpayer money is still flowing down the rat hole in large quantities. 

One single example of why people don't vote.

In 2012, I lived in Ohio. The local school district put a levy increase on the ballot. Since it was a presidential election year, turn out was high. The levy was defeated almost 2-1. They held a special election in the spring of 2013 and it was narrrowly defeated. They held a third election in the summer and it barely passed. In the medical device field, we call that testing to compliance. That will get you heavily fined and shut down by the FDA. Go figure.

[Bigun]

In 2012, I lived in Ohio. The local school district put a levy increase on the ballot. Since it was a presidential election year, turn out was high. The levy was defeated almost 2-1. They held a special election in the spring of 2013 and it was narrrowly defeated. They held a third election in the summer and it barely passed. In the medical device field, we call that testing to compliance. That will get you heavily fined and shut down by the FDA. Go figure.

@edpc

Why that sort of crap is allowed is beyond me but it happens here in Texas ALL the time.  It's going to be a BIG issue in the upcoming (2019) session of the Texas legislature.

[Wingnut]

Ten years ago the people of Harris County Texas voted overwhelmingly to tear the money-losing Astrodome down yet the thing is still standing and the taxpayer money is still flowing down the rat hole in large quantities. 

One single example of why people don't vote.

Yeah but that is Harris Co.  A Dem run Rathole if there ever was one. 

[Bigun]

Yeah but that is Harris Co.  A Dem run Rathole if there ever was one.

Not so!  Until January of 2019 that is!