FILE - Voters go to the polls at Sara Smith Elementary polling station, in the Buckhead district, on Jan. 5, 2021, in Atlanta during the Georgia Senate runoff elections. (VIRGINIE KIPPELEN/AFP via Getty Images)The United States has been notoriously known to have one of the lowest voter turnouts of any developed nation in the world.
In fact, according to voting data collected by the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance from elections as of August 2022, the U.S.
ranked 9th, with only a 62% average voter turnout, trailing just behind Spain at 65%. Belgium took the top spot with a 78% voter turnout.
Also, midterm elections – like the one this year – tend to have lower numbers of people at the polls in comparison to presidential elections, according to the U.S.