11-07-2024, 09:38 PM
This post was last modified 11-07-2024, 09:49 PM by UltraBudgie.
There's a narrative about 20 million missing votes and 2020 or whatever going around. I don't trust other's presentations very much, so I made a thing!
These numbers are from The New York Times and the Florida University Election Lab. The 2008 Voter Turnout number is from Wikipedia.
![[Image: Screenshot_2024-11-07_18-26-26.png]](https://denyignorance.com/uploader/images/Screenshot_2024-11-07_18-26-26.png)
Here are the raw numbers:
Year Eligible Turnout Democrat Republican
2008 213313508 131406895 66862039 58319442
2012 222437494 130231296 62611250 59134475
2016 230780798 138747904 65853625 62985106
2020 240628443 159738337 81284666 74224319
2024 245741673 152967700 68999737 73349596
The narrative about missing votes seems to come from this devilish little edit on Wikipedia:
![[Image: Screenshot_2024-11-07_18-32-35.png]](https://denyignorance.com/uploader/images/Screenshot_2024-11-07_18-32-35.png)
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?tit...1256009943
Which inserts an essentially fabricated number into the voter turnout data series. Please note that I'm not saying that everything was on the up-and-up with any election, or otherwise; I'm only presenting the best data I could find. Plus, the data may be wrong, but if so it's not because I changed it.
Edit: Also please note 2024 turnout numbers here are current ballots counted (152M estimated), the number in my previous post was ballots cast (158M estimated), so as the final numbers trickle in the decline in voter turnout in 2024 will presumably become less pronounced.
These numbers are from The New York Times and the Florida University Election Lab. The 2008 Voter Turnout number is from Wikipedia.
Here are the raw numbers:
Year Eligible Turnout Democrat Republican
2008 213313508 131406895 66862039 58319442
2012 222437494 130231296 62611250 59134475
2016 230780798 138747904 65853625 62985106
2020 240628443 159738337 81284666 74224319
2024 245741673 152967700 68999737 73349596
The narrative about missing votes seems to come from this devilish little edit on Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?tit...1256009943
Which inserts an essentially fabricated number into the voter turnout data series. Please note that I'm not saying that everything was on the up-and-up with any election, or otherwise; I'm only presenting the best data I could find. Plus, the data may be wrong, but if so it's not because I changed it.
Edit: Also please note 2024 turnout numbers here are current ballots counted (152M estimated), the number in my previous post was ballots cast (158M estimated), so as the final numbers trickle in the decline in voter turnout in 2024 will presumably become less pronounced.
