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More voters (154.6 million) turned out for the presidential election in 2020 than in 2016 (137.5 million), the largest increase between consecutive presidential elections since the inception of the CPS voting supplement in 1964.
- The Claim: There Are Just 133 Million Registered Voters in The Us
- Voter Registration and Turnout Totals
- Our Ruling: Partly False
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The 2020 election season saw record voter turnout across the country. President-elect Joe Biden now holds the record for the most votes received by a presidential candidate, after getting more than 81 million. Despite losing dozens of lawsuits and the Electoral College's certification of Biden's win, President Donald Trump's campaign and others con...
The post is correct in its accounting of Trump's vote totals. He received more than 74 million votes. The vote total for Biden, 81 million, also is correct, putting the overall total at more than 155 million votes cast. What the tweets get wrong is the number of voters. There are more than 234 million people eligible to vote in the U.S. Not all of ...
The claim in the post is rated PARTLY FALSE. The tweet that appears in viral Facebook posts cites correct vote totals for Trump (74 million) and Biden (81 million). But it falsely reports the number of registered voters. More than 159 million registered voters cast ballots in the general election, out of 239 million eligible voters. So it is comple...
The Washington Post, Dec. 18, "2020 turnout is the highest in over a century"- AZ Fact Check
Nov 7, 2020 · More than 74 million people cast votes for Biden and more than 70 million cast votes for Trump. Those numbers will continue to creep up, but it appears that well more than 65% of...
Among their data is a series reporting the total number of persons "registered and eligible to vote." For 2016, the sum of the individual county numbers, for counties with data in the US is 185,714,229--a number 15% greater than the CPS estimate for the same year and election.
YearTurnoutVoting Age Population (vap)Voting Eligible Population (vep)2016136,787,187249,422,000230,931,9212012129,139,997240,177,000222,474,1112008131,406,895229,989,000213,313,5082004122,349,480219,508,000203,483,455Only eight states (and the District of Columbia) voted more Republican than in 2016. Some of the biggest blows to the left are across Wyoming, Colorado, Arizona, Montana, Kansas and Nebraska.
Jan 28, 2021 · Americans voted in record numbers in last year’s presidential election, casting nearly 158.4 million ballots. That works out to more than six-in-ten people of voting age and nearly two-thirds of estimated eligible voters, according to a preliminary Pew Research Center analysis.
