🗳️ The gray vote

Brazil votes in the first round of its presidential election in three weeks, and the electorate has quietly changed shape. Registration data from the Superior Electoral Court (TSE) lists 158.7 million eligible voters this year, and 37.5 million of them are 60 or older. That is 23.6% of the total, up from 15.3% in 2010. 

Over the same 16 years, the number of voters aged 16 to 24 fell from 24.7 million to 19.2 million, and their share of the electorate dropped from 18.2% to 12.1%. The over-60 bloc grew by 80% while the electorate as a whole grew by roughly 17%…

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