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Picking the metric where half of them have a `-` blank value seems a bit flawed.
by ceejayoz 10mo ago
Picking the metric where half of them have a `-` blank value seems a bit flawed.
- tock 10mo agoVEP = only counts people who can actually vote. VAP = counts everyone of voting age including people on visas who aren't allowed to vote. We moved to VEP because the % of total population who aren't citizens started to grow rapidly. eg. see 2020 vs 2024. The eligible VAP count increased by 12M but actual VEP count only increased by 2M. edit: looks like there is VEP data for older years though I am guessing its not very accurate: https://election.lab.ufl.edu/voter-turnout/#:~:text=National%20voting%2Deligible%20population%20turnout,demographic%20groups%20from%201986%2Dpresent. https://election.lab.ufl.edu/voter-turnout/#:~:text=National... Looks like the 1800s had much much higher turnout! I guess my statement is only valid for the last 100 years.