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Does the average voter just not care at all about anything actually important? What is even going on here?
We just had a vote for government officials along the EP vote. Less than 60% turned up which means the most common vote was a vote for nothing. The average voter doesn't care.
At least voters who don't turn up are harmless. If all the people who voted for EPP-affiliated parties just didn't turn up instead, we'd face far fewer problems.
What a load of bullshit, Voters that don't turn up are the most dangerous of them all, because it lowers the percentage and skews the votes. If 40% go voting and make their vote invalid, those 40% still get counted, meaning the percentage for other parties is overall lower.
Brexit in the UK happened because most didn't vote, meaning a small percentage of voters had over-inflated influence.