Participation matters
A system cannot hear people who are not in the count.
Voting does more than pick a winner. It tells government what people want, what they will accept, and what they reject.
When tens of millions of adults do not participate, their preferences never enter the election result.
80M+
voices missing from the result.
The exact election-year figure and denominator belong in the data pass. The structural problem does not depend on whether the final number is 80, 82, or 90 million.