Mëds wrote: ↑Tue Nov 17, 2020 2:41 am
One has to admit that it is exceedingly fishy to have 4 consecutive elections of sub 60% voter turnout and then suddenly clock in at 98.25% in an election that was forecast to be exceptionally close. Moreover, when the big bad Donald was leading handily in some key states there was a sudden uptick of votes for Biden.....and abracadabra Biden gets a landslide of votes to come from behind in these key states.....and voila, the voters line up to display an unprecedented turnout.
It's also worth noting that the overall average voter turnout in the past century has been around that 60% mark.
Mëds, read what I just wrote.
Voter turnout was nowhere near 98.25%! They are pulling your leg! Don't let them fool you!
Their "estimate" for registered voter is among the crappiest estimates I've ever seen, and I've been working with estimates for the past thirty years.... They take the actual number for 2018, a midterm election year that nobody cares about, so pretty low registration, then adjust it for population growth.... which has nothing to do with it! No correlation at all.
And so they get a fake estimate that they know is far too low. *
But that's the point!
They need to pretend that this number is lower than it is, because then, when they compare it with the voter turnout, it looks fishy.
Which is what they want.
Because they want to undermine the trust in representative democracy in the USA.
That's their agenda.
Both parties were trying to get the vote out, so actual voter registration (which we still have no number for as some states allow registration even on election day) was most likely at least 10-20% higher than in 2018.
That being said, voter turnout was pretty high this time. May even reach 80% when all is said and done, which would be phenomenal for the USA, but rather meh for a country where people care about democracy and the right to vote.
Our voter turnout in 2018 was 89.25, which was OK, but not quite there. You want it to be in the nineties.
As for the "Donald was leading handily, but then there was an uptick in Biden votes"... Yeah, we've been over that aleady.
Donald does really well in rural districts. Biden does really well in urban districts.
Rural districts tend to be smaller, and so they report their results early.
Thus everyone said even before hand that mostlikely Trump would get an early lead, and the question was then if he could hold on to it or if Biden would pass him as the night went on. As most polls had Biden as the winner, most thought that is what would happen.
The election got closer than most had expected though, so some of those states took a very long time before Biden passed Trump in the count.
But that's just a technicality. All votes were cast before the deadline. It is just a matter of what districts reporting in first.
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Also note that the "2020 Estimated Registered Voters" number is the only one that does not have a source. That is because they pulled it out of their ass.
