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One factor impacting voter turnout of Black Americans is that, as of the 2000 election, 13% of Black American males are reportedly ineligible to vote nationwide because of a prior felony conviction; in certain states – Florida, Alabama, and Mississippi – disenfranchisement rates for Black American males in the 2000 election were around 30% ...
With Election Day less than two weeks away, Black voters in North Carolina are voting early far less than they did in the last presidential election, according to the state’s data.
Local Dems say comparisons between 2020 and 2024 early voting numbers don’t paint the full picture.
Between the 2018 and 2022 midterm elections alone, the turnout gap grew by 5 percentage points between white voters and nonwhite voters, and it grew by 8 points between white voters and Black ...
Black voters made up 29% of the electorate, and Latinos made up about 7%, a significant increase compared to previous years. Biden performed well across the board; he won independent voters by 9 points, and was able to pick up 6% of Republican voters in the state. Biden also won young voters in Georgia, sweeping each age group under 50 years old.
Such seemingly disparate efforts all have a single goal: boost Black voter turnout ahead of Election Day. How Black communities turn out in the 2024 election has been scrutinized due to the pivotal role Black voters have played in races for the White House, Congress and state legislatures across the country.
As is the case in many Southern states, there was a stark racial divide in voting for this election: 82% of White Mississippi voters supported Trump, while 93% of Black Mississippi voters supported Biden. [3] 57% of voters believed abortion
But in the last two presidential elections, Black voters’ turnout trailed white turnout by 64% to 71% in 2016 and 68% to 79% in 2020. If Democrats want to prevail statewide in 2024, they’ll ...