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 ago57% 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
atrielienz@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
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.
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.
Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
Read their comment again
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.
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.
spankmonkey@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Surprisingly enough, they don’t count!