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'''Voter turnout''' is the number of votes cast for the highest office on a given [[ballot]],<ref>US Government and Politics</ref> usually expressed as a percentage of the total number of voters who were eligible to vote.

A list of the voter turnout in presidential elections shows that it peaked in the very close election of 1876, and was also quite high in 1840 and 1860.<ref>https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/statistics/data/voter-turnout-in-presidential-elections</ref>

Voter turnout declined overall in 2022 from 2018, but [[ballot harvesting]] and other paid get-out-the-vote efforts by [[Dem]]s among college-educated young voters remained high to the benefit of the [[Democrat Party]].<ref>https://www.brookings.edu/articles/new-voter-turnout-data-from-2022-shows-some-surprises-including-lower-turnout-for-youth-women-and-black-americans-in-some-states/</ref>
== Voter turnout in 2020 ==
As [[Dem]]s perfect their get-out-the-vote efforts with lavish funding and [[ballot harvesting]], the voter turnout in the [[2020 presidential election]] was a 50-year high.<ref>https://apnews.com/article/fact-check-wisconsin-2020-voter-turnout-689651528261</ref>

Republican get-out-the-vote efforts were not nearly as strong as the [[Dem]]s', and rural voter turnout was a below-average 65% that year.<ref>https://www.governing.com/community/lack-of-access-to-infrastructure-hurts-voter-participation-in-rural-america</ref> Due to inadequate work by the [[Republican Party]] in rural areas, one pro-[[Trump]] county in [[Georgia]] had only 19% turnout in 2020 - the lowest in the Nation.

=== Wisconsin ===

Voter turnout in the [[2020 presidential election]] in Wisconsin was 83% in Milwaukee County, compared with only 73% statewide including all the rural counties.<ref>https://www.fox6now.com/news/milwaukee-voter-turnout-estimated-at-78-for-2020-election</ref>

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