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By Burwell-Perry’s count, 200 community members shuttled about 26,000 people from Amish weddings to the polls to vote for Trump on Election Day — one of the highest turnouts the region has ...
"Thus, the rough number of potential eligible Amish voters – age 18 and up – in Lancaster County, even if every single eligible Amish voter was registered, 100%, would be about 17,000 people max."
Though data on Amish voter turnout in the 2024 election isn't fully available yet, Republican organizers used creative outreach methods this year, such as in-person engagement at local fairs ...
For example, among the Old Order Amish, running for office is not allowed but voting is only discouraged, not forbidden. [1] Others, like those of the Baháʼí Faith, do not take part in partisan politics. They neither endorse particular candidates, or join political parties. They are told to vote their consciences as individuals.
Native Americans have been allowed to vote in United States elections since the passage of the Indian Citizenship Act in 1924, but were historically barred in different states from doing so. [1] After a long history of fighting against voting rights restrictions, Native Americans now play an increasingly integral part in United States elections.
To ensure that the idea is carefully considered, voting is designed to make any change difficult, because once a rule has been adopted it is difficult to have it rescinded. If two or more people reject the change, the Ordnung remains unaltered. [15] The Amish allow for change, but their emphasis centers on tradition.
Learning many Amish get married on Tuesdays (which would include Election Day) and elders discourage voting entirely, he sold many on early voting and voting privately by mail.
U.S. presidential election popular vote totals as a percentage of the total U.S. population. Note the surge in 1828 (extension of suffrage to non-property-owning white men), the drop from 1890 to 1910 (when Southern states disenfranchised most African Americans and many poor whites), and another surge in 1920 (extension of suffrage to women).