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[-] trollercoaster@feddit.de 3 points 1 year ago

Of course, a good percentage of the AFD voters are actual Nazis and lost causes, but the thing is that an increasing number of people aren't voting at all because the existing political landscape doesn't have anything credible to offer. Due to the 5% cut-off for getting into parliament, voting for a small party is frequently seen as wasting a vote, which exacerbates the problem if none of the big parties are seen as deserving a vote. With fewer people voting, all it needs is every Nazi out there to go and vote AFD to create a scary high percentage of votes for them.

[-] Haven5341@feddit.de 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

an increasing number of people aren’t voting at all

That seems wrong. At least in Thuringia, Saxony and Saxony-Anhalt (the states mentioned in the paper) voter turnout has been quite stable the last 20 years.

A quick search leads to:

https://de.statista.com/statistik/daten/studie/281790/umfrage/wahlbeteiligung-bei-den-landtagswahlen-in-thueringen/

https://www.wahlen.sachsen.de/landtagswahl-historie-eckdaten.html

https://de.statista.com/statistik/daten/studie/3179/umfrage/wahlbeteiligung-bei-den-landtagswahlen-in-sachsen-anhalt-seit-1990/

[-] trollercoaster@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago

Seems to vary a bit regionally, also there seems to have been a recent uptick that I wasn't aware of.

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