Never trust a Hoft when it comes to numbers, or apparently Bill Binney either.
212 million is the number of voters registered. The 66.2% turnout is based on voting eligible population. These are completely different things. Not everybody who is eligible to vote is registered to vote. There's about 239 million voting eligible people. People need to stop making these simple dumbass mistakes. It makes it easy for the left to discredit the things that are actually true.
That's a good point. It's not gonna make the math impossible like gatewaypundit is claiming, but I'd like to figure out how to factor that in and see how much more suspicious it all looks
Seems normal and realistic to me. I'd guess it's a little higher than in the past, but there were much more pushes to register voters for this election than in the past.
That's interesting. Way lower than I expected. Guess I was wrong about it being normal. But doesn't change the fact that Binney and Hoft used the wrong number to make their claims. Definitely worth looking into more, just not from gatewaypundit
They used 212M (registered voters) instead of 239M (voting eligible pop.) The 66.2% they used to calculate how many people voted is based on voting eligible population but they did 66.2% of 212M instead.
It's the third time I've seen them make a simple obvious mistake like this, which is why I was a little harsh (directed at them, not you)
Never trust a Hoft when it comes to numbers, or apparently Bill Binney either.
212 million is the number of voters registered. The 66.2% turnout is based on voting eligible population. These are completely different things. Not everybody who is eligible to vote is registered to vote. There's about 239 million voting eligible people. People need to stop making these simple dumbass mistakes. It makes it easy for the left to discredit the things that are actually true.
What about the people registered to vote but not eligible to vote?
That's a good point. It's not gonna make the math impossible like gatewaypundit is claiming, but I'd like to figure out how to factor that in and see how much more suspicious it all looks
And if we don't know that number, how do we kno the number of registered voters isn't larger than eligible voters?
And sadly Trump retweeted this.
A quick search, all sources seem to point to the US Elections Project
Seems normal and realistic to me. I'd guess it's a little higher than in the past, but there were much more pushes to register voters for this election than in the past.
That's interesting. Way lower than I expected. Guess I was wrong about it being normal. But doesn't change the fact that Binney and Hoft used the wrong number to make their claims. Definitely worth looking into more, just not from gatewaypundit
They used 212M (registered voters) instead of 239M (voting eligible pop.) The 66.2% they used to calculate how many people voted is based on voting eligible population but they did 66.2% of 212M instead.
It's the third time I've seen them make a simple obvious mistake like this, which is why I was a little harsh (directed at them, not you)
Historically, that has been true for 70 years.
this is thedonald.win not thedonald.betrayed Does POTUS look like he's been betrayed!
Is this about 66.2% of eligible voters (~230 million) which works out mathematically and NOT registered voters (~213 million).
90% is not normal—at all. Typically rates above 80% are a major red flag for voter fraud.