Comment on "Florida is a conservative Christian state"

hperrin@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• Buttflapper@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  57% If Floridians voted in favor of abortion rights.

  One small correction: 57% of the people who voted, voted in favor. Florida has approximately 22 million people as of the last census. No: 4,547,767 (42.8%) Yes: 6,068,933 (57.2%)

  So, approximately 15.93 million people in Florida did not vote, meaning about 27.6% of people in Florida voted… Truly insane to see

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  • Boddhisatva@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I’m rapidly coming to the conclusion that people who cannot be bothered to vote shouldn’t really count.

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    • spankmonkey@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Surprisingly enough, they don’t count!

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  • atrielienz@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    22million people who are eligible to vote? I want to know if that’s everyone who lives in Florida (man women, children, citizens, non-citizens etc), or just eligible voters.

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    • Buttflapper@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I updated my comment, initially I had the wrong figure. I went back to the US Census website, and looked again. Then, I took the number who are over 18 years of age only, and subtracted that out.

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      • shottymcb@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Your updated number is still off by over a million. Not everyone over the age of 18 is eligible to vote. Not that it changes the point much, but you want to look for eligible voters vs over 18.

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    • Kecessa@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Read their comment again

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      • atrielienz@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I did after the update. Their comment doesn’t account for people who are old enough to vote/and counted in the census but still are not eligible voters. 78.76 percent of eligible voters voted. The total number of people who voted is 10,999,265 out of a total number of eligible voters 13,949,168.

        This is important context that was missing from both the original comment and the edited comment.

        floridaelectionwatch.gov/CountyReportingStatus

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• spankmonkey@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  They voted for abortion rights at the state level, then voted in a Senator, two Representatives, and Trump into office so they can pass a national abortion ban.

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  • Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    In some other states yes, but the abortion protection in Florida failed to pass, leaving their 6-week (2 weeks from detectability) ban in place.

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    • spankmonkey@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      My point is that more than half voted for abortion rights and more than half voted for the anti abortion candidates.

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      • TheBat@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        It’s probably because when they see ‘R’ next to a candidate’s name, they can’t help but choose that.

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