Voting and Registration Trends
Who Votes, Who Doesn't, and Why
The right to vote is arguably one of the most important rights of citizenship in a democratic country, yet a substantial number of U.S. citizens choose not to exercise this right. Voting and Registration in 2000In the election of November 2000, the 60 percent of citizens who voted was slightly higher than the 58 percent of citizens who voted in 1996. Registration of the citizen population was 70 percent, slightly lower than the 71 percent of the citizens registered in 1996. The number of people who voted in 2000, 111 million, fell short of the record high, 114 million, set…
