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More than 40 percent of the people arrested last week for blocking the travel lanes of the Downtown Expressway after Donald Trump was elected president did not vote in the election they were protesting, according to voter registration and election participation records.

Three of the 12 protesters arrested were registered in Virginia but did not cast a ballot on Nov. 8, a Richmond Times-Dispatch review of state and local records shows. A fourth protester whose Facebook page says she is from Virginia was not registered to vote here. And a fifth protester living in Richmond was a registered voter in Orange County, N.Y., but did not request an absentee ballot or vote at her precinct, according to the Orange registrar’s office.

Seven of the 12 protesters are registered voters in Virginia and did cast ballots on Nov. 8. They include two people who live in the counties of Chesterfield and Henrico and are registered to vote in those localities, records show.

The arrested protesters range in age from 18 to 26 and were all of legal age to vote. Only one of the arrested protesters was 18 — the minimum age required to vote — and he cast a ballot, records show.