Re:Midjourney CEO Silencing Satire About Xi Jinping
by andreiii on Monday April 03, 2023 @03:45AM
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in almost any election in every European country the voter presence is 50% or below. I think that's what the comment was about... is just a small % of people that participate in voting and even smaller percentage that votes for the winner.
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Re:Midjourney CEO Silencing Satire About Xi Jinping
by suddenclarity on Monday April 03, 2023 @04:39AM
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Average voter participation is 65% in european countries.
Re:Midjourney CEO Silencing Satire About Xi Jinping
by HWR_14 on Monday April 03, 2023 @04:31AM
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The quote I responded to was explicitly about a minority of people who opted into voting. Other parts of the comment included nonvoters, but that's a different discussion.
Re:Midjourney CEO Silencing Satire About Xi Jinping
by ElFitz on Monday April 03, 2023 @05:54AM
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> the voter presence is 50% or below
What do you mean by "voter presence"? And 50% of what? Of registered voters? Of people eligible to vote?
Because statistics would beg to differ. [^1]
It might hold for european elections [^2], as almost nobody seems to care about those, leading to a low turnout, but that definitely isn’t true about national elections.
[1]: https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2018/11/these-countries-have-...
[2]: https://www.forbes.com/sites/niallmccarthy/2019/05/27/europe...