In the 2012 general election, 57 percent of eligible citizens made it to the polls, a drop from the 62.3 percent who voted in 2008. Regardless of small losses and gains every cycle, America lags behind its peers: in a 2016 study on voting, the US ranked 31 out of the 35 most developed democratic countries in the world in voter turnout. And since 2012, 14 states have passed restrictive voter ID laws, which threaten to chip away further at the number of citizens who are able to maneuver their way to the polls.
Sad state of American democracy
Source: backchannel.com