94 Million Eligible Voters Did Not Vote in 2016. Democrats: Get Out THAT Vote!

When President Donald Trump reportedly urged his supporters to vote twice, once by mail-in ballot and once in-person, the “clarifications” followed: No, he was not encouraging voting twice — which is illegal — just “testing the system”: Voters should vote by mail, then go to their polling station to verify their ballot was tabulated.

But: Clarifying nuance may be lost on Trump’s more ardent supporters. Double-voting is now a real possibility. Trump clearly is trying to fog up the election so he can declare it invalid.

And just as clearly, the Democrats’ mission crystalizes: We must win by massive and irrefutable margins. And we can.

How? There are reserves to be tapped — 94 million of them, to be exact.

In the 2016 presidential election, 94 million eligible voters did not vote. Nothing about that sentence is a typo, neither the 94 nor the million nor the eligible. Fully 40% of eligible voters chose to stay home, despite the hoopla of the first woman nominee running for President (Hillary Clinton).

While such level of voter non-participation is an indictment of American democracy, it is also a tool — and Democrats need to use it, now.

Of course, eligible — of age — does not mean actually registered to vote. Here’s where our work lies: We need to register as many of those 94 million as we can, and ideally to vote Democrat (blue).