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For many years, voter turnout was reported as a percentage; the numerator being the total votes cast, or the votes cast for the highest office, and the denominator being the Voting Age Population (VAP), the Census Bureau's estimate of the number of persons 18 years old and older resident in the United States.
The voting process has two steps. An eligible voter – a U.S. citizen over the age of 18 [20] – must first register to vote and then commit the act of voting. The voting process is regulated by each state individually and therefore varies from state to state. [21] The process of registering to vote is different depending on the state. [21]
In 1972, noncitizens and ineligible felons (depending on state law) constituted about 2% of the voting-age population. By 2004, ineligible voters constituted nearly 10%. Ineligible voters are not evenly distributed across the country – 20% of California's voting-age population is ineligible to vote – which confounds comparisons of states.
That said, as of last year's election, Detroit had more registered voters — 508,535 — than its estimated voting-age population, which was 466,379.
Early voting has gone down to about 25% or 30% in three Wisconsin elections in 2022, 2023 and 2024. ... General Election Voter Registration and Absentee Statistics, 1984-2022.
Congressional voting trends by race and age in the United States, 1966–2010. The youth vote in the United States is the cohort of 18–24 year-olds as a voting demographic, [3] though some scholars define youth voting as voters under 30. [4]
DJ Yearwood, right, a youth advocate, talks about he KC Youth and Young Adult Commissions for the City of Kansas City during a student event with American Public Square on Wednesday, Feb. 28, 2024 ...
[214] [215] The 2020 elections saw the highest rate of voter participation by voting eligible population since the ratification of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, which prohibits racial discrimination in voting, and the Twenty-sixth Amendment, which effectively lowered the national voting age from 21 to 18. [216] [217]