nonvoter

plural nonvoters · alternative non-voter

1. Someone who does not, or is not eligible to, vote.First known use 19th c.

   But as well as those who were firmly in team Trump or team Clinton, there’s another group to think about: the non-voters.

   2016 November 15, Sarah Marsh, “Did you not vote in the US election? Tell us why”, in The Guardian

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   Non-voters were deemed fanatics less dangerous than the Birney and Hale men, who chose at first between the two great debauched parties.

   1891, Josiah Bushnell Grinnell, Men and Events of Forty Years

   That model of political redemption rests on an untested but credible hypothesis: that in their alienated hearts, nonvoters—disproportionately less affluent Americans—will seek "progressive" remedies for their distress and therefore favor the more progressive party.

   2006 January 18, Jack Beatty, “The Weimar Analogy”, in The Atlantic, →ISSN

   Many advocates of what I have called the “progressive theory of mobilization” assume that the typical nonvoter is young, brown or black, and very progressive. But while, of course, some nonvoters fit that description, an overwhelming majority don’t.

   2020 February 26, Yascha Mounk, “What Nonvoters Want”, in The Atlantic

   “[Data center opposition is] bringing together three-time Trump voters, anti-vaxxers, environmentalists, independents, nonvoters, people who are in our cities, people who are in the rural areas,” Mr. [William] Lawrence said.

   2026 August 23, Shane Goldmacher, “The Data Center Backlash Bursts Into the Midterms”, in The New York Times, →ISSN