That is probably because Washingtonians are smart enough to realize voting is pointless bullshit. Why take the trouble to choose between two people who are both going to screw you over?
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"I think we probably had a better election. Think about this: We cut Obama by 5 percent, which was big. You know, a lot of people lost sight of that. He won, he beat McCain by 10 percent. He only beat Romney by 5 percent. I think that, probably, voter ID helped a bit in that."
2 Pennsylvania GOP officials (Mike Turzai and Rob Gleason). There you go, it's substantiated!
[1] http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/OTUS/voter-fraud-real-rare/st...