Do we have any sort of numbers for voter turnout in the recent election? I cannot find them, but then again I have not had my coffee.
At least four different newspapers including The Independent, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Teen Vogue, and The Telegraph had articles regarding the huge young voter turnout that amounted to a Blue Wave of voters. The Republican Party in its fervor to appeal to the extreme Right overplayed its hand and payed for it dearly.
Their party stance is basically, “If you are raped and impregnated, you WILL have that baby while your rapist laughs at you and mocks you. YOU have NO rights because that cluster of mindless cells and the “rights” of that vicious rapist are more important than YOU. Now, vote for us!”
Half the voters in this nation are women. Do the math you fucking morons! 
“Our leader and standard bearer is a malignant narcissist, and a traitor who openly encouraged his followers in a blatant act of sedition to overthrow the newly democratically elected government of the United States of America. Vote for us!”
The image of the Republican Party right now is horrible, absolutely horrible, and it should be exactly that because that is in reality what it has become. I voted “D” for everything available on my ballot because they stick together, which means they are all the same and all equally guilty.
This was my anecdotal experience as a poll worker in a small Wisconsin city. We were blown away by all the Election Day registrations, nearly all of them college age (and most of them college students).
(Here’s to hoping this partly counters the “Maher says democracy is is dead” narrative discussed in another thread).
It appears that voter turnout nationwide was down slightly from the last midterm election in 2018, but still well above the historical averages for a midterm. Turnout in certain states was up, mostly those with competitive Senate or Governor elections such as PA, AZ, NV. It’ll be a while before we have good demographic data to validate turnout by age, sex, race, etc.
Please be careful about your pronoun antecedents. 
Ah, I get it! Had to think for a minute or two! “They” meaning the Republicans. “They” all voted together twice against impeaching Trump even though he was blatantly guilty of sedition.
Here one analysis (this link is given when I check the MN SOS website)
Brian
Actually, I thought “they” was “ballot(s).” I joke, but in all seriousness, the only (tiny) hiccup we had in the polling place where I’m a chief inspector was when two ballots stuck together (a filled one and a blank one), and the filled one had to be re-fed into the machine.
Thank you for your vital service!! Volunteers at polling places have been intimidated and even threatened because the ne’er-do-wells know we can’t fairly exercise our democratic right to vote without you.
Much appreciated. Besides the training and preparations, we are up from 5 AM to 11 PM on Tuesday, with no break (okay, a few minutes to eat, a couple of times during the long day).
It’s worth it for many reasons, including: 1) Seeing young, first-time voters (some of whom had to really dig to come up with the proper documents to register, but they did); 2) Seeing a few folks who think fraud is rampant (you know the type) volunteer as poll watchers or (better yet) election workers, and they realize how fraud is nearly impossible (beyond a miniscule scale). Let’s hope they pass the word on to their ignorant friends.
Thank you for this. Wisconsin had the third-highest turnout rate in that list! Woo hoo! (After Minnesota, which I can literally see across the river from my house; and, Maine, barely.)
This was also specifically true for youth turnout, which was 31% four years ago, and 27% this time. Still, overall an upward trend.
Overall, turnout in Minnesota was about 60%. The highest in the country, and the 2nd highest in the state (highest was 2018), only about 10% down from the Presidential year in 2020.
In the precinct where I was election judge (south Minneapolis/ Minnehaha Creek) we had 88% turnout. About 18% was early/absentee votes (compared to over 60% absentee votes in 2020 due to Covid). Only 3% was same-day registration; less than many polling places, but this is a fairly stable population precinct.
Darn it, you folks are always just a little hipper than us Wisconsinites. 