Michigan: Why would 87,000 voters leave the presidential race blank?

[Eric J in MN]

http://www.palmerreport.com/politics/rigged-election-87000-voters-in-michigan-supposedly-failed-to-vote-for-president/262/

[Dream Girl]

1. Indeed

[MadamPresident]

2. Because both candidates were sooooo bad and just the same.

I heard that ridiculous argument a million times this year.

Many of these people are really going to rue the day they chose not to choose.

I still find this all so surreal.

[FreakinDJ]

6. THIS

I talked to soooo many people who told me they couldn't bring their self to vote for either candidate

[andym]

9. I heard this as well

and there was no convincing them otherwise.

[TwilightZone]

3. Could be "both sides are bad" voters.

Many DUers said they'd vote for Dems, but not at the top of the ticket. DU isn't representative of the real world, but similar sentiments could have come into play.

Based on the article you linked, 50k people didn't vote for president in 2012 but voted in other races. Perhaps, "both sides are bad" is largely responsible for the increase in 2016.

[frazzled]

4. Because they were told Hillary has bad judgment

and, you know, got paid for speeches. And was a war monger. And they swore they'd never vote for her, no matter how bad Trump was. You know, the ones who heckled and held up signs at the convention, and protested outside. And all their friends, who call themselves "progressive." That's yer answer, not vote discrepancies.

[TreasonousBastard]

5. Bernie...

is my guess for nonvoting Dems, and Trump just too revolting for thinking Republicans.

[anamandujano]

7. I suspect they were all Democrats. I also suspect most of them actually did vote.

The truth will out.

[womanofthehills]

8. Michigan's air pollution made their brains fuzzy

We know they were dem votes!!

[Wounded Bear]

13. No, it was the lead in the water...

[Barack_America]

10. Most write-ins counted as a no-vote.

[SickOfTheOnePct]

11. I was just about to post this same thing

One of the on-line articles I was reading said that if anyone wrote in a name that wasn't on the approved write-in list ( six or seven candidates maybe?), the ballot would show as an undervote.

[scscholar]

12. Do you have to select the President separately if you vote straight party?

In some states you have to.

[BlueProgressive]

16. No.

[Retrograde]

14. It happens everywhere

In my county there were 724,000 ballots cast: only 695,000 cast votes for the presidential candidates on the ballot.

I've left slots blank myself on occasion, usually for the down-ballot offices such as school district.

[Garrett78]

15. 50,000 did the same 4 years ago. When much more popular candidates were running.

So, I don't find it hard to believe 87,000 did that this year.

[Danmel]

17. Lots of people undervote

NY doesn't have straight line voting.
We also have cross endorsements so many times for judges and positions like county clerk and treasurer, sheriff, D.A. and the like, candidates may be endorsed by Democrats, Republicans, conservatives, etc.
I usually do not vote for candidates with D and R endorsements on principle. They have no opponents so it did no harm.
I also don't vote for my state reps when they run unopposed, which is frequently, because they are all hard core anti choice anti human rights assholes.
So I'm not surprised and it didn't necessarily been anything nefarious is involved. It also doesn't mean that something untoward is involved, but the media narrative of they both suck and after equally really did Hillary in.

[Vinca]

18. Because 87,000 people are idiots.

[NWCorona]

19. Hopelessness. Some people feel forgotten. Nt