This was my great-great-great-grandmother, who retired from the polls in 1957.
She died in 1968, 94 years old.
Otterfan on
Indeed, voter rates in the US today are slightly higher than the 50s for Presidential elections and about the same for mid-term elections.
And back in 1957 most people under 21 couldn’t vote, so it wasn’t the kids dragging down the turnout.
toomanyracistshere on
Voter turnout was high during the Gilded Age and low for the period that came afterwards. It’s actually started trending up in the past few elections. The era where there was something of a national consensus, politics weren’t very partisan and a large proportion of people were swing voters was actually an era of pretty low turnout.
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This was my great-great-great-grandmother, who retired from the polls in 1957.
She died in 1968, 94 years old.
Indeed, voter rates in the US today are slightly higher than the 50s for Presidential elections and about the same for mid-term elections.
And back in 1957 most people under 21 couldn’t vote, so it wasn’t the kids dragging down the turnout.
Voter turnout was high during the Gilded Age and low for the period that came afterwards. It’s actually started trending up in the past few elections. The era where there was something of a national consensus, politics weren’t very partisan and a large proportion of people were swing voters was actually an era of pretty low turnout.