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That's not how voting works.

Just because that's not how this form of voting works, doesn't mean it not an interesting stat to look at.

Unknown and presumably mostly ambivalent?

Rather than look at it as "I don't care enough to vote" I tend to look at it as "unwilling or unable to vote" although hopefully the number of people "unable" would be small.

Which means that even if all 40% of the non-voters had voted against the union, it still would have passed. That's an extremely strong result.

An absolute majority is frankly pretty impressive. By the same calculation the last US presidential election was 37% unknown, 32% Biden, 29% Trump, 2% 3rd party.

81,283,501 for Biden, 74,223,975 for Trump, 158,429,631 total votes, 252,274,000 as best proxy for eligeble voters (18+ us pop) per [1]

[1] https://www.fec.gov/resources/cms-content/documents/federale...