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Voter Turnout:  Record High Keeps Growing

11/25/2020

 
​Those who predicted that 2020 presidential election turnout would exceed 155 million people have now been proven correct.  According to The Green Papers statistical website, the entire voting universe in the 2020 presidential election, while still growing as states finish their canvassing process, has reached 155,043,792 voters. 
 
This figure represents an increase of more than 18.25 million people since the previous presidential election in 2016.  The totals represent at least a 13.3% uptick in voter participation between the two presidential years at a time the national population grew only 1.2% during the same time span.

Election Record:  Two Candidates Surpass 70 Million Votes

11/25/2020

 
​There are now only two presidential candidates in United States electoral history who have received more than 70 million votes, and they are Joe Biden and Donald Trump, both in 2020.  Mr. Biden is the only person ever to receive more than 80 million votes and, despite losing the popular vote, President Trump increased his vote total by just under 11 million when compared to his aggregate 2016 number.

Mail Voting:  More Than Half the Country Affected

5/11/2020

 
​Currently, 22 states have adopted some type of election law changes that will allow more mail voting to various degrees for at least their upcoming primary elections. 
 
To the more extreme extent, five states, according to the Ballotpedia organization, are doing away with the application process and simply sending absentee ballots to every voter.  They are: California, Maryland, Montana, Nevada, and New Jersey.  Lawsuits to institute similar changes or make even more drastic alterations such as allowing ballot harvesting and extending the deadline to return the ballot to ten days past the election, are alive in nine additional states.

Turnout Report:  Highest % Since 1914

11/12/2018

 
​National voter turnout reports are surfacing and University of Florida professor Michael McDonald, who manages the United States Election Project, estimates that more than 115 million people will have voted in the 2018 midterm election when all of the results are final.  This is an all-time record in terms of aggregate vote, and the eligible voter turnout percentage of an estimated 48.9% is the highest since the 1914 midterm. 
 
By contrast in 2014, the national voter turnout was 83.2 million people, or just under 37% of the eligible voters.  That total was the lowest in the post-World War II era.  The 2016 presidential election saw almost 137 million voters cast a ballot, the highest aggregate ever.

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