Voting Registration: Some Stats Use these links to navigate the Voting: Registration section. Links for navigating the entire voting section, as well as the rest of the Law, Diversity and the Vote site are at the bottom of the page. What's Involved | Voting Fraud | Registration Discrimination | Reform | Why Reform? Motor Voter & Voting Rates | Will Reforms Increase Turnout? YOU Vote! | Some Stats | Resources/Links for This Section Voting Age Population by Year: See the Federal Election Commission website 1992: 189 million 1996: 196.5 million 1998: 200.9 million (Projected Voting Age Population provided by the Bureau of the Census and represents scientific estimates based on statistics available in January 1998.) (The term Voting Age Population (VAP), refers to the total number of persons in the United States who are 18 years of age or older regardless of citizenship, military status, felony conviction, or mental state. The actual number of eligible voters, those that are legally entitled to vote, will always be less than the VAP because of the inclusion of resident aliens (both legal and illegal), as well as convicted felons who are either institutionalized or who have not yet had their voting rights restored under the various State laws, persons declared mentally unfit by a court of law, or those persons otherwise ineligible to vote. Neither the Bureau of Census nor any other organization can define with complete accuracy exactly how many eligible voters there are in the United States.) Voter Turnout Comparisons: Elections of Main Legislatures of Select Democracies See Center for Voting and Democracy web site >>Youth Citizenship >>Voter Registration >>Representation >>Campaign Reform Conversation | *Voting* | Activities | Resources Online Conversations | Law, Diversity, and the Vote