Voted in the primary this past week. Voter turnout was 23.45%. Yeah, it's a primary, but fuck you if you surrender putting a candidate on a ballot come election season. I can't see an age or demographic breakdown of voting, unfortunately. I'm so aggravated over this considering: 1. Ballots were mailed weeks prior to the voting deadline. 2. Ballots were mailed with paid postage and with a pamphlet describing each candidate in each race and ballot box locations. 3. I can't figure out a way of berating everyone on why this is important. But I want to scream at all of my friends and colleagues who just...decided not to participate...these are educated people. Hopefully they'll vote come November. We'll see.Fuckin' VOTE. It's the only thing the goddamn boomers have over you. They don't even have the numbers anymore (and us GenXers never did) but they've been running things for so long that if you listen to them they'll grind you into powder.
... in mail-in/absentee states, of course ;) You could theoretically do this in states where voting is more traditional, but it's a lot harder to ensure people take their prepared ballot lists to a polling place and actually do it.
Dude I am so doing this. That's an amazing idea.