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		anon_shill 11 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: A Coup Is in Progress in America Correction: 31% of the eligible voting population and ~50% of the popular vote. A lot of people did not vote.

normalaccess 11 months ago | [–]

Thank you, that is an important point. Voting numbers can only estimate the totals.

I should have use the term *Electorate*.

  The collective people of a country, state, or electoral district who are entitled to vote.

scarface_74 11 months ago | [–]

And they too are getting exactly what they asked for by not voting.

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