Blame for Low Voter Turnout: Low turnout exacerbated by election schedules that hold vote on special days

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Elections cost taxpayers thousands of dollars, whether there’s low turnout or not.

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Later analysis by the University of South Carolina Beaufort’s American Presidency Project found that there were 235,248,000 people of voting age in the United States in the 2012 election, resulting in 2012 voting age population (VAP) turnout of 54.9%. The total increase in VAP between 2008 and 2012 (5,300,000) was the smallest increase since 1964, bucking the modern average of 9,000,000-13,000,000 per cycle. One possible reason for this relates to the effects that the Great Recession and stricter border control mechanisms had on net migration to the United States from Mexico from 2009 to 2012; net migration from Mexico to the United States plummeted to zero (and potentially net-negative totals) during this time, and for the first time in more than 80 years, the Mexican-born population in the United States decreased.