MTG wants to “divorce “ the red states from the blue states.

To be blunt the “lots of reasons” you list in the first paragraph would make a strong case these folks have no clue how things work and lack common sense.

In the second paragraph you are all but implying that those who vote for Republicans are against voting rights and democracy both which are imbedded in the foundation of this country.  So what does that say about them as American Citizens?

It is a mystery why individuals would continue to vote for the Republican Party, a party that has strong ties to white nationalists.  A party who strongly believes only certain people should be allowed to vote.  A party that spreads lies and misinformation with abandonment.  A party that cares more about keeping AR-15s on our streets than the mangled bodies of school children that are massacred by AR-15s.

What kind of person would support that? Because people who continue to vote for Republicans must support that stuff.   And that’s the mystery.

I was curious about how many citizens that are eligible to vote but aren’t registered to vote.  The number I found in a couple of articles from different years shows roughly 50M Americans who are eligible to vote but chose not register.  

But was interesting was an article by the Pew Charitable Trust from 2017.  They did a survey in 2016 and came up with some interesting results.

It’s worth a read to see the questions asked and the responses.  They compared unregistered to those who are registered but frequently don’t vote.  

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“Why Are Millions of Citizens Not Registered to Vote?”

“A survey of the civically unengaged finds they lack interest, but outreach opportunities exist”

Overview

In every state and the District of Columbia—except North Dakota—individuals who plan to vote in a federal election must first register to vote. However, a sizable share of eligible citizens do not register. Official statistics vary, but a conservative estimate, calculated using data from the U.S. Census Bureau’s most recent Voting and Registration Supplement, indicates that 21.4 percent were not registered to vote in 2014.1

Registration’s importance to the voting process and the large number of individuals who remain unregistered have spurred several major reforms intended to increase voter registration. Most notably, the federal government’s National Voter Registration Act of 1993 (NVRA) requires that states allow eligible citizens to register to vote when completing other transactions at state motor vehicle and social services agencies, a provision commonly known as Motor Voter.2 Since enactment of the law, some states have expanded on this requirement by automating the Motor Voter process. Colorado upgraded its Motor Voter process in 2017, and Oregon became the first state to implement automatic voter registration in 2016, with at least six more planning to implement similar policies in the future.3 Other states offer Same Day Registration, which allows individuals to register and vote on Election Day, often right at their polling places.4

Despite these efforts, little is known about eligible but unregistered U.S. citizens’ exposure to opportunities to register, reasons for choosing not to, or attitudes toward the electoral system and civic engagement, or how many of them are interested in registering in the future. To begin to fill this gap, The Pew Charitable Trusts commissioned a nationally representative survey conducted in March and April 2016 that included a large population of unregistered individuals. This chartbook presents findings from the survey about the attitudes and experiences of those who said they were not registered to vote in the months preceding the 2016 presidential election, including:

Less than 20 percent of eligible citizens have been offered the chance to register at a motor vehicle or other government agency.

The unregistered were more likely to say they do not vote because they dislike politics or believe voting will not make a difference, while people who are registered but vote infrequently say they do not vote more often because they are not informed enough about the candidates or issues.

At least 13 percent of the unregistered, generally those who are younger and more civically engaged, say they could be motivated to register in the future.”

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Conclusion

The unregistered differ in many ways from those who vote frequently: They are less interested in politics, less engaged in civic activities, and more cynical about their ability to understand and influence government, but they are not appreciably different on these measures from individuals who are registered but rarely vote. However, the unregistered population is not entirely unengaged from civic life; some indicated that they would register, and that group also reported participating in community or political activities at rates similar to occasional and semifrequent voters. Further, more than 40 percent of the unregistered cared who would win the presidency in 2016, and some indicated that they could be motivated to register in the future, though many also feel that the voting process does not affect the way governing decisions are made. These findings suggest that opportunities exist to engage segments of the unregistered population, including through consistent outreach at motor vehicle agencies as required under the NVRA and public education campaigns designed to highlight the significance of individual voter participation to election outcomes and the connection between local policies and issues these citizens care about, such as those for which they volunteer in their communities. Less than 20 percent of this group has been asked to register by a state agency, and a substantial increase in that figure could help to improve registration rates and electoral participation among these disconnected citizens.

Methodology

The Voting Frequency Survey was conducted online in English and Spanish from March 25 to April 19, 2016, by the GfK Group on behalf of The Pew Charitable Trusts. The total sample size was 3,763 U.S. citizens 18 years or older. GfK sampled households from its KnowledgePanel, a probability-based, nationally representative web panel. The margin of error, calculated with the design effect, at the 95 percent level of confidence for the total sample is plus or minus 1.9 percentage points. A full methodology, including margins of error for key subgroups, is given in Appendix A: Voting Frequency Survey Methodology, available on the chartbook webpage. The survey questions and frequencies are available in Appendix B: Voting Frequency Survey Topline.”

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There are people better equipped to be on the ground that are helping/getting  people registered to vote than me for a number of reasons, none of which are any of your business.

And I do appreciate the work these individuals do.

Once again she is lying.  She is quoting from a doctored video of comments made by Zelenskyy.  What he actually said was that if Putin isn’t stopped in Ukraine he will go on to invade other countries including NATO countries which will mean the United States will have to send troops to fight per the NATO agreement.  He’s right.

But of course that doesn’t fit in with the Putin loving Republicans, so they lie and people clap and cheer these people for telling lies.