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Why more than 80 million Americans won’t vote on Election Day: Blog 1.4

1.58.6 percent of Americans voted in 2012. 84 percent of registered voters voted in 2012.
2.People miss state deadlines, ex-felons can not vote, and voter ID laws keep voters from participating.
3. Many can not get off of work for election day and polls do not accomadate for disabilities.
4.Family's bring a "responsibility" to their child where they feel the need to vote.
5. Having so many elections makes it easier to fall into the habit of not voting at all.
6.The two parties supress voters because some might not want to vote with those two parties so they go home.
7.Oregon is trying voting by mail in order to increase voter participation.
8.the idea is to increase voter turnout and help cement cultural norms around voting.
9.The laws signal to people that voting is expected of them.

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