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I-am-Orlando 59 points ago +59 / -0

Actually, there were 213 million registered voters with 66.9 percent voting, which equals 143 million voters. But there were supposedly 156 million votes. Here's the proof.

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StultusPopulusNimis 15 points ago +15 / -0

Actually, your data source (while certainly closer to the truth than the OP's meme) isn't quite accurate and the numbers are used in less than relevant ways.

For example: I live in Texas so I clicked on their reference link to the Texas SoS site. The table in the link you provided shows 16,211,198 registered voters in Texas. However, if you click their link to the actual Texas SoS site, they clearly show 16,955,519 registered voters. A difference of -744,321 (4.6% low). Additionally deceptive, your source references the total estimated full population of Texas (29,730,300). Not the actual voting age population (21,596,071) which is certainly more relevant.

Next, I just randomly picked Florida. Clicking on their link to the Florida DoS site, Florida says there were 14,565,738 registered voters on 12/31/20 but your data source only reflects 14,065,627. Another difference of -500,111 (3.6% low). And again, there comparing that to the estimated total population of Florida (21,944,600) rather than the more relevant number of voting age Floridians which is not provided in the DoS data.

I didn't dig any deeper but finding two pretty substantially low reporting errors (totaling -1,244,432 registered voters) suggests the prospect there may be other substantial errors in the report from that source.

I know data can REALLY be a PITA. Data is what I do and I tracked the election and thousands of data points related to it. If I may respectfully offer a suggestion for you, avoid .com sources. Or at least double check the data against .gov or .org (that rely on .gov) sources.

"World Population Review" sounds like it would be a decent source, but there is no information for "about..." No indication about who they are. Clearly a commercial site with click ads and while their numbers are closer to accurate than some, in a data driven world, if we want to use data to make decisions and judgements, I find it usually better (although more time consuming) to go the sources, or at least to randomly double check some data points to qualify it.

According to "United States Election Project" (http://www.electproject.org/2020g) In 2020: There were ~257,605,088 voting age Americans. There were 239,247,182 eligible voters (registered) There were 159,690,457 actual votes So, this is: A 61.99% participation by voting age Americans A 66.74% participation by eligible voters.