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Only 71.739 million people voted so far? (apnews.com)

submitted 1 week ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Is it my imagination or is that number extremely low?

I predicted to the lib I work with that voter turnout this election would be far lower than last time and he was adamant that it would be high; it should be a lot higher if it's going to meet the numbers from four years ago, shouldn't it?

I expected it to be low but I didn't think it would be this bad; if this number doesn't spike it's going to be worse than 2016.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Um....if I'm understanding this chart right, this means the last time the numbers were this low was 2014?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Unless I'm making a mistake - the blue bars are the key thing: "by mail or before election day". 2014 was 31.1.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago

The bars are shares, though. Assuming @[email protected]'s number of 154 million, 71 million is 46% of 2020's numbers

But 2020 was also unusually high-turnout and I'm assuming more people will vote in person this time around due to ending the covid restrictions, so I'm assuming the final proportion will be higher.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Ah, okay, I misunderstood the chart (like....grossly misunderstood the chart)

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

I don't particularly like the infographic I shared but I got very tired of googling due to google itself and SEO articles that go on and on but there are no infographics. I don't want to read about numbers. I never do. Show it to me as infographics that's what they're for.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

I was wrong and you were right. I edited the comment.