Reply #25: Clearly

[Febble]

there were about 17 million more voters in 2004 than in 2000, and if only 95% of 2000 voters were alive in 2004, then that would make about 22 million voters in 2004 who didn't vote in 2000. And you are asking me where they came from. Well, I dunno. Why should I know? I expect some of them were young, first-time voters, and some of them were voters who don't vote very often.

FWIW, here's a plot of the total votes cast for each candidate by year from 1968:



Knit your own inferences. But as you say, this has nothing to do with whether the exit polls are evidence of fraud.