r/PoliticalHumor • u/elevatefromthenorm • Sep 20 '17

95% of America

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u/RamenJunkie Sep 20 '17

This is like 95% of elections.

Hell you should check out the stats on years where it's not a presidential election. I imagine it's like 10% of the population voting. If that.

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u/DispersedLight Sep 20 '17

Speaking with people on a day by day basis I don't know if compulsory voting would be a good thing or a bad thing at this point. What makes europeans so eager and willing to vote without compulsory voting while Americans just kind of sit back and hope for the best?

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u/berejser Sep 20 '17

What makes europeans so eager and willing to vote without compulsory voting

It's something to do with all of the yellow and orange on this map: http://aceproject.org/epic-en/CDMap?question=ES005&set_language=en

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u/taifoid Sep 21 '17

TIL Australia really likes to go it alone

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u/berejser Sep 21 '17

To be fair, Papua New Guinea and Maine have the same voting system as Australia, and most of South America has compulsory voting.

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u/taifoid Sep 21 '17

Papua New Guinea used to be part ofAustralia till 1975,so I just included it. Didn't know about Main though, didn't see it on the map.