How Many Registered Voters Are There In America

Were in that location just 133 million registered voters in the United States for the November 2020 presidential election? No, that's not true: While we could non detect a full for voters registered in for all 50 states as of November 4, 2020, we did find a cumulative number from before the election. The U.S. Census Agency counted 153 million reported registered in 2018. With 21 states allowing citizens to registered at the polling sites on the same day they vote -- and Due north Dakota not even having voter registration -- that number is far short of the final 2020 tally. The number of eligible voters -- not the number of registered -- is a more relevant number. The claim of the lower number was used on social media to support a merits that if Donald Trump got 74 1000000 votes, then Joe Biden could not have gotten 81 one thousand thousand.

The claim appeared in a post (archived here) shared on Facebook on December 19, 2020. Information technology read:

If Everyone agrees that Trump got 74million plus votes and there are 133 meg registered voters...how many votes were left for Biden????

This is what the mail looked like on Facebook at the time of writing:

(Source: Facebook screenshot taken on Sun December 20 17:52:50 2020 UTC)

The 158,240,239 votes counted in the 2020 U.S. presidential election represent a 66.7% turnout of all eligible American voters, according to a calculation by the Us Elections Project. The estimate took into account the number of felons in the voting age population who were not eligible.

The project, which is based at the University of Florida, explained why pre-ballot voter registration numbers are not a practiced measure. Read this on its folio titled "Why not calculate turnout rates as percentage of registered voters?" One major factor is that voters can annals in many states on Election Solar day:

The way past which eligible persons can register to vote varies across states. Northward Dakota does not have voter registration. Other states have a policy known as "Ballot Twenty-four hour period Registration" or EDR which allows individuals to register and vote on Ballot Twenty-four hour period. In these states, voter registration as a turnout charge per unit denominator is misleading since any eligible voter can bandage a ballot if they and so desire.

While we may not know the exact number of registered voters on election day, we know information technology was far more than than 133 million in 2020.

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