Got an amusing email from Dow Constantine recently.

It said the following -

"Ralph Nader's vanity campaign in 2000 handed Florida and the White House to George W. Bush, and we got accelerated climate change and tragic, endless war in the Middle East. Jill Stein's third-party campaign, with a boost from the Kremlin, helped Trump and his band of kleptocrats grab the power to bring our nation to the brink of disaster -- and that's just what they've done. "

Oh really?

Here's part of my response -

"Seems to me in looking at the voting-eligible population data of the last few elections, I'm seeing the following -

2000 (http://www.electproject.org/2000g)

	Turnout Rates			Numerators		Denominators		VEP Components (Modifications to VAP to Calculate VEP)
	2	VEP Total Ballots Counted	VEP Highest Office	VAP Highest Office	Total Ballots Counted	Highest Office	Voting-Eligible Population (VEP)	Voting-Age Population (VAP)	% Non-citizen	Prison	Probation	Parole	Total Ineligible Felon	Overseas Eligible
3	United States	55.3%	54.2%	50.0%	107,390,107	105,375,486	194,331,436	210,623,408	7.7%	1,377,013	2,339,388	536,039	3,082,746	2,937,000

2004 (http://www.electproject.org/2004g)

e	Turnout Rates			Numerators		Denominators		VEP Components (Modifications to VAP to Calculate VEP)
	2	VEP Total Ballots Counted	VEP Highest Office	VAP Highest Office	Total Ballots Counted	Highest Office	Voting-Eligible Population (VEP)	Voting-Age Population (VAP)	% Non-citizen	Prison	Probation	Parole	Total Ineligible Felon	Overseas Eligible
3	United States	60.7%	60.1%	55.4%	123,535,883	122,294,978	203,483,455	220,336,019	8.2%	1,490,169	2,387,283	474,632	3,158,443	3,862,836

2008 (http://www.electproject.org/2008g)

	Turnout Rates			Numerators		Denominators		VEP Components (Modifications to VAP to Calculate VEP)
	2	VEP Total Ballots Counted	VEP Highest Office	VAP Highest Office	Total Ballots Counted	Highest Office	Voting-Eligible Population (VEP)	Voting-Age Population (VAP)	% Non-citizen	Prison	Probation	Parole	Total Ineligible Felon	Overseas Eligible
3	United States	62.2%	61.6%	56.9%	132,609,063	131,304,731	213,313,508	230,872,030	8.4%	1,605,448	2,451,085	627,680	3,144,831	4,972,217

2012 (http://www.electproject.org/2012g)

	Turnout Rates			Numerators		Denominators		VEP Components (Modifications to VAP to Calculate VEP)
	2	VEP Total Ballots Counted	VEP Highest Office	VAP Highest Office	Total Ballots Counted	Highest Office	Voting-Eligible Population (VEP)	Voting-Age Population (VAP)	% Non-citizen	Prison	Probation	Parole	Total Ineligible Felon	Overseas Eligible	State Abv
3	United States	58.6%	58.0%	53.6%	130,292,355	129,070,906	222,474,111	240,957,993	8.4%	1,473,412	2,342,582	637,410	3,352,390	5,127,418

2016 (http://www.electproject.org/2016g)

te			Turnout Rates			Numerators		Denominators		VEP Components (Modifications to VAP to Calculate VEP)
	2	State Results Website	Status	VEP Total Ballots Counted	VEP Highest Office	VAP Highest Office	Total Ballots Counted (Estimate)	Highest Office	Voting-Eligible Population (VEP)	Voting-Age Population (VAP)	% Non-citizen	Prison	Probation	Parole	Total Ineligible Felon	Overseas Eligible	State Abv
3	United States			60.1%	59.2%	54.7%	138,846,571	136,700,729	230,931,921	250,055,734	8.3%	1,416,810	2,198,907	506,297	3,176,484	4,739,596

Given that the % of voter ballots turned in over the last 5 elections is consistently under 66% of the Voter Eligible Population (VEP), that tells me that neither the voting for Ralph Nader in 2000 nor Jill Stein in 2016 were decisive factors in deciding the election to either corporate brand. Your statements about these two Presidential candidates are clearly false.

If you and your staff were smart, rather than sending emails containing statements like the one above, you'd spend your time trying to figure out why a large bloc of the voter eligible population didn't vote at all. Had you done so, you wouldn't be wasting my time being forced to read stuff you appeared to have pulled out of your collective asses.

And if after reading this you are either unable or unwilling to do so, while you're free to continue pulling stuff out of your asses and sending it, don't do it in my Inbox."