How Many Registered Voters Are In The Usa 2016s

The claim: There are just 133 one thousand thousand registered voters in the US

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, subsequently getting more than 81 1000000.

Despite losing dozens of lawsuits and the Electoral Higher's certification of Biden's win, President Donald Trump'southward campaign and others go on to promote falsehoods about the brownie and security of the election.

A December. 21 Facebook post, which pulled a screenshot of a Twitter post, claimed Biden somehow received 22 million phantom votes. The postal service has over 1,200 shares, as of Dec. 30.

"Uncomplicated math: Trump got 74 million votes and there are only 133 million registered voters in the Us," the tweet claims. "Even if everyone who's registered actually voted, there would only exist 59 meg votes left for Biden. So how the hell did Biden get 81 million votes? 22 meg actress?"

The Facebook user who made that item post has non returned a request for comment from U.s. TODAY.

Another Facebook user fabricated the same claim without pulling a screenshot from Twitter. USA TODAY has also reached out to this user for comment.

And the Twitter account MSM Fact Checking posted a similar merits on Dec. 18, from which many viral Facebook posts stalk.

In a follow-up tweet, the MSM Fact Checking Twitter account tries to evidence its math: "Merely to clarify there were 213,799,485 registered voters in 2020 of which conflicting sources say turnout was between sixty% - 65%. I averaged it out at 62.5% which means just over 133,500,000 registered voters voted. 74,000,000 Trump + 81,000,000 Biden = 155,000,000."

So, "But for consummate transparency, even at 65% turnout the total would be merely over 138,000,000 voters resulting in over 155,000,000 votes. However you look at it, information technology doesn't add together up."

The MSM Fact Checking account has its direct messaging turned off then it could not exist reached for comment.

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Voter registration and turnout totals

The post is correct in its bookkeeping of Trump's vote totals. He received more than 74 one thousand thousand votes. The vote full for Biden, 81 million, also is right, putting the overall full at more than 155 million votes bandage.

What the tweets get wrong is the number of voters. At that place are more than than 234 million people eligible to vote in the U.S. Not all of those people are registered voters, all the same.

In its thread of tweets, the account MSM Fact Checking provided alien calculations without citing sources. The initial post claimed at that place were 133 million registered voters. In some other tweet, it claimed there were 213 million registered voters with a voter turnout rate of 62.5%. All of these numbers are simulated.

We know, after weeks of counting, that there were roughly 159 million ballots bandage in the presidential ballot. Co-ordinate to the Ballot Project, this accounts for 66.seven% of the eligible voting population of 239 million Americans..

The U.S. Census Bureau publishes voter registration totals for the nation; its 2020 numbers are non all the same available.

But for example, in the 2016 presidential election, in that location were 157 million registered voters. Of those, 137.5 million voted. And there were 224 million American citizens historic period 18 or older. All figures are college than the number in the claim regarding the 2020 election, when voter registration and turnout bankrupt records.

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Our ruling: Partly false

The claim in the post is rated PARTLY FALSE. The tweet that appears in viral Facebook posts cites correct vote totals for Trump (74 one thousand thousand) and Biden (81 one thousand thousand). But information technology falsely reports the number of registered voters. More than than 159 1000000 registered voters bandage ballots in the general election, out of 239 one thousand thousand eligible voters. So it is completely possible that Trump and Biden would post that many full votes.

Our fact-cheque sources:

Us TODAY, December. 4, 2020, "'Republic prevailed': Joe Biden passes 270-vote threshold to win Electoral College"
Usa TODAY, Nov. 10, "Four maps that prove how America voted in the 2020 ballot with results by county, number of voters"
USA TODAY, Dec. 18, "2020 Presidential Election Results & Balloter Map"
The Washington Mail service, Dec. 18, "2020 turnout is the
highest in over a century"
Usa Election Project, December. 7, "2020 November Full general Election Turnout Rates'
U.S. Demography Bureau, May 2017, "Voting and Registration in the Election of November 2016"
Arizona Secretary of Country, "Voter Registration Counts"

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