Rising turnout coexists with individually rather than group-mediated voting

Evidence

Electoral patterns offer another acute illustration of this trend. Although turnout has been on the upswing in the past three US presidential elections, Americans now tend to vote alone. Whereas they once arrived at polling stations as members of a specific party or civic group, they now enter the voting booth as individual citizens, guided by purely personal preferences—if they haven’t already cast their ballots by mail. — Anton Jäger, Hyperpolitics, 104

Categorization

• XREF: Connects directly to my prior notes on quietude/deep-listening work about attention and belonging, and to the reader’s stated thesis that saturation without organization yields no durable change.