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The vote abstention should be right, I searched on the greek voting system and I don't see any requirement besides[1]: * having the greek citizenship * being
by bpfrh 4y ago
The vote abstention should be right, I searched on the greek voting system and I don't see any requirement besides[1]:
* having the greek citizenship
* being older than 17
* Not being dissalowed by the court to vote
All citizens get automatically added to the "registered vote" after they turn 17.
E.g. A greek citizen is always a registered voter even if he doesn't go and vote.
If we take the 2019 numbers we have:
9961718 registered voters
4192215 voters who didn't fill out the forms (I assume non voters are counted this way)
(4192215×100)÷9961718 ~=42% Are non voters
[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elections_in_Greece https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elections_in_Greece
[2]https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parlamentswahl_in_Griechenland_2019#Wahlsystem https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parlamentswahl_in_Griechenland...
Edit: formatting, add a note about what the 42% means
- gbil 4y agoYour math is fine starting from the 9,9m number but you didn't take into account what I wrote, which is that the total population of greece is 10,4 millions. Registered voters are those >=17 years old so only 500k are <17 which of course is not valid EDIT: adding more data, official numbers state ~1,5m of age 0-14. Let's say 200k more in the 15-16 range, that is ~1,7m 10,4-1,7 = 8,7m >=17 years old. Population of Greece dropped by about 400k between the previous and current census (2011-2021) while the registered voters number from 2009 elections hasn't changed. I'm afraid that 1,7m gap is not justified at all, we locals have long heard of how bad the registered voters records are, still including a lot of dead people etc. To not lose track, this thread is just to justify why the numbers in the OP are to be taken with a grain of salt