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Let's see... round that figure to 16%, subtract an estimated 10% who always vote for the party they cheerlead for, and we're left with 6% of the population who actually chose the president. Estimate 200m million eligible voters, and we have 12 million voters who actually made a difference. The final tally was about 49% Romney and 51% Obama, and we're left with approximately six million who elected the president, less than the population of Los Angeles.
But, those figures could be off. It might have been a lot fewer than that.
Without voter ID the numbers could mean anything. When dozens of precincts vote 100% for a single party candidate, which defies reliable statistics, then questions have to be raised.