I would guess that the majority of the 50% of non voters didn’t vote willingly, but some of that 50%, other than the previously mentioned exceptions, maybe couldn’t due to disenfranchisement from purging voter roles, or since it’s not a government holiday, maybe couldn’t leave work to vote. I believe legally it has to be allowed, but we all know that doesn’t mean that it always is, and some people work a distance from their voting station. For example, I travel an hour for work on Wednesdays, stay remote, then drive back home Thursday evening. If that happened to be on a voting day where early voting isn’t possible, that could disqualify me, or at least make it really difficult to vote.
But as mentioned, I think the majority is due to apathy or ignorance, willful or not.
Zexks@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
Look at the comparisons of voters in 2020 for biden then again at 2024. People simply didnt show up. Between gaza, lack of primaries, joes late drip out, kamelas annointment, and covid bailouts and tax shenanigans making people think they made more under trump, a lot of people felt to just sit back and watch it all burn, some didnt think he could do much more damage than what he did last time. I would put bets on the largest group there being the ones that just want to watch it burn.
Same thing were seeing around the world. Not just in the US. Look at how britains doing after brexit.