That Democrats had record turnout
According to Ballotpedia, in 2024 ~63.9% of the eligible US voting population (older than 18, US citizen, resident of voting jurisdiction) turned out to vote (registered & casted a ballot) or ~155 mn people. This means ~36.1% didn’t turn out, or ~88 mn people out of the ~243 mn total eligible population. In 2020, the turnout rate was ~66.6% or ~158 mn, meaning ~33.4% or ~79 mn didn’t vote out of the ~238 mn total eligible population.
According again to Ballotpedia, ~77 mn voted R in 2024 (~49.8% of the voting population or ~31.8% of the total eligible population), ~75 mn voted D (~48.3% of the voting population or ~30.8% of the total eligible population), and ~3 mn voted 3rd party (~1.9% of the voting population or ~1.2% of the total eligible population).
In 2020, ~81 mn voted D (~51.3% of the voting population or ~34.2% of the total population), ~74 mn voted R (~46.9% of the voting population or ~31.2% of the total eligible population), and ~3 mn voted 3rd party (~1.8% of the voting population or ~1.2% of the total eligible population).
Democrats lost ~6 mn voters from 2020 to 2024 after looking at the above three sources, despite the voting population decreasing by ~3 mn and the eligible population increasing by ~5 mn. This implies that they did not have record turnout if you compare to 2020, also implying 2020 was more of a “record” turnout compared to 2024.
& record voter registration
Regarding voting registration, Ballotpedia haven’t posted data from 2024 or 2020, instead sharing 2022 information (which is biased since most people don’t vote in off-General Election years). The US Census Bureau have gathered this information however:
According to the US Census Bureau, in 2024 the total eligible voting population (older than 18, US citizen, assumed resident of voting jurisdiction) was ~236 mn, the total registered population was ~174 mn (~73.6% of total eligible population), and the total voting population was ~154 mn (~65.3% of the total eligible population). Comparing registered to voting populations, ~154 mn voted out of ~174 mn registered (~88.8%), while ~20 mn did not vote (~11.2%).
In 2020, the US Census Bureau reports that the total eligible voting population was ~232 mn, the total registered population was ~168 mn (~72.7% of the total eligible population), and the total voting population was ~155 mn (~66.8% of the total eligible population). Comparing registered to voting populations, ~155 mn voted out of ~168 mn registered (~91.9%), while ~14 mn did not vote (~8.1%).
What the above 2 sources show is that more people were eligible and registered to vote in 2024 compared to 2020, but less people actually voted in that same time frame, both in absolute (~154 vs ~155 mn) and relative (~88.8% vs ~91.9%) terms. This could imply that Democrats didn’t receive “record” registration, but the US Census Bureau doesn’t gather party affiliation in their registration data.
Ballotpedia does collect this, and says that only 30 states allowed voting registrants to list their party affiliation on their registration AND made this information public. The other 20 states and DC might have allowed this information to be collected, but didn’t make such data public, or didn’t collect this information to begin with.
The numbers Ballotpedia report are that in March 2024, ~118 mn people registered in 30 states, ~45 mn registered D (~38.3%), ~36 mn registered R (~30.3%), and ~37 mn registered 3rd party (~31.4%). Ballotpedia doesn’t have registration data for 2020 (nor for 2019 or 2018), but does have 2021. For June of that year, ~125 mn people registered in 31 states, ~49 mn registered D (~39.6%), ~36 mn registered R (~29.2%), and ~39 mn registered 3rd party (~31.2%).
This data is likely biased because it was collected in March of 2024 and June of 2021, times of the year and of election cycles where people aren’t as engaged in politics as around times of the year/election cycles closer to General Elections. It does indicate that Democrats received above average registration numbers, but that the registration numbers were more “record” in 2020 than in 2024. We don’t have data for every state though, so really this finding is inconclusive.
20 million less Democrats voted
Like I said above, ~6 mn less Democrats voted in 2024 over 2020, not 20 mn.
Where is the evidence for the “record turnout”? Where is the evidence for the “record voter registration”? Where is the evidence of the “20 million more Democrats”?
From what evidence I can find, Democrats had lower turnout, lower registrations, and less votes in 2024 than 2020.
The lack of analysis of voting data in this post leads me to believe that the other information and claims are suspect. Seems more like a narrative is being pushed than fact.
Texas doesn’t have registered Democrats because you don’t specify a party affiliation when you register to vote in Texas.
I’m not going to spot check the rest of the items, but this list is at least partially B.S. so the whole thing is suspect.
Yes, the Republicans cheat and voter suppression is the only thing that keeps them in power, but spreading misinformation about that voter suppression makes it harder to fight, not easier.
Texas doesn’t have registered Democrats because you specify a party affiliation when you register to vote in Texas.
How does “affiliating while registering” not equate to “registering as?”
Texas did in fact purge voter rolls in the lead up to the election, though it was months, not days, prior, and I haven’t seen evidence of it being predominantly aimed at Democrats. However, the state does know what primary you voted in and can use that to formulate a “potential Democrat” list.
they know which counties leans democrats, thats how they target thier voter suppression methods there.
That was a mistake in my original post. I meant to say that you DON’T specify a political affiliation when you register.
Thanks for catching that, I edited the original post to fix it.
Pretty sure voter apathy is a bigger problem. Of course the former is a big one but you can’t explain away 90 million not voting as simply voter suppression.
voter apathy(the ones that cant be bothered to vote or dint vote because they dont think its important) and LOW-Information voters.
Considering that a few posts down from this one is this about Oklahoma changing education standards to push the 2020 election Big Lie, I’m starting to think having integrity is a losing strategy no matter how much we wish it were otherwise.
This is copium. It’s preferable to think there was a conspiracy to swing the election compared to the reality that more people voted for him than for sanity.
There is good reason to believe that even more wasn’t kosher than usually during US elections and that esp. Republicans had their thumbs on the scales.
We should look into it properly.
But this sort of facebook meme with predigested slogans without any sources is worse than useless.
Except for all the data that says that they absolutely stole the election.
https://sdvoice.info/trump-lost-vote-suppression-won-here-are-the-numbers/
https://electiontruthalliance.org/eta
First and last links are the data. The middle links are for us stupid people that need to be told how to read the data in the last link.
I’m very skeptical of arguments that there is voter suppression of minorities based on reasoning like:
an audit by the State of Washington found that a Black voter was 400% more likely than a white voter to have their mail-in ballot rejected.
since there could be another variable which, once controlled for, causes this difference to disappear. This article seems to be assume the reader has no understanding of statistics.
This is much more self-evidently indicative of voter suppression, in my opinion:
Brian Kemp, signed SB 202 which slashed the number of drop boxes by 75% only in Black-majority counties and locked them away at night.
But could this be explained by another variable, like higher crime rates in black-majority counties leading to a necessity for increased security? I don’t understand why this measure would cause a 90% decrease in drop-box balloting either. This article has a lot of red flags for me – it’s not actually explaining the reason for any of these measures, so it’s implying there is no reason for these measures except for voter suppression of minorities. Obviously that is not the rationale which those who implemented these measures would give publicly.
Oof.
Heres a crazy radical idea that will truly shock you, maybe (just maybe) Kamala lost because of a combination of her campaign being a complete disaster and republicans owning the media. Also Kamala trying to win the Republican vote and it statistically not working, all it did was convince democrats to stay home.
Writing down conspiracies like these makes you sound exactly like the guy you’re saying you hate. Democrats lost. It happens. But now going around talking about how it was rigged? It removes credibility.
No no, it was the leftists! The solution is to pin absolutely all of the blame on anyone who ever said anything critical of Harris and/or Biden! Then we just have to run the exact same play in three years and we’re bound to win.
The rigging was mostly done on the TV screen via propaganda, not the ballot box.
Is it really hard to believe people are just stupid and elected a traitor? The see prices go up and immediately blame the incumbent. The anti-incumbency effect happened around the world, not just a US thing.
States run elections. Blue states also shifted red by double digits. Are you suggesting republicans can somehow rig blue state elections without anyone raising alarms?
People just are afraid, and with fear, they look for a strongman that makes good sounding promises, no matter how ridiculous they are. (although its funny that people still view trump as a “strongman” dude is old and fragile)
Republicans have decades of experience in shifting elections in their favor by means other than convincing voters. It really isn’t unlikely. The USA should look into it. But the sort of sourceless and predigested meme OP posted is worse than useless here.
They went down without a fight and that’s what surprised me most. Not a single legal case or even someone complaining on tv. Just went away, backed into the hedge.
I’m pretty well convinced that all the ‘stop the steal’ shit in 2020 was to give us all media fatigue for when it actually happened in 2024.
It worked -_-.
I really don’t think it was planned that way, but it surely helped them. Remember: with Republican double standards, every accusation is a confession.
and also to prevent democrats from calling it rigged, because now republicans can say “see dems are saying its rigged when we won as well” thats why the Ds dont want to investigate too. of course many in the DNC are complicit as well, theres no way they wernt aware of teh rigging days, weeks, hours ahead of the elections.
Wouldn’t surprise me one bit. It’s what they do, they come out beforehand and accuse the others of doing stuff, normalising the words and watering them down so that they’re used against them it just gets shrugged off.
Yup. I created a narrative that the d’s gave up because they believe that this would be the only way to get the r’s onboard with basic stuff like universal healthcare. Otherwise they’d riot like they did on 1/6. But… the d party hasn’t changed strategy and they’re a geriatric unit who refuses to step aside for the future of the nation. So now my narrative is that they’re unprepared and don’t care. They’ll benefit financially from this dictatorship and that’s all they care about anyway.
Yeah no, election denial is a republican thing.
Harris’ campaign was 107 days long. It would have been a miracle if she were elected.
•Trump always accuses others of crime, before or while doing the crime himself. He accused Biden of stealing the election
…how hard is it to comprehend that a majority of men in swing states couldn’t vote for a woman of color?..
NC went for a blue governor but went for trump. If the elections were rigged surely NC would have been straight red.
This downplays the state of our country and amount of stupid ones who voted for Biden but couldn’t for Kamala. There was no conspiracy. A couple of days before the election, CNN interviewed black men who in Georgia who voted for Biden previously and I knew she was cooked when they were like “nah man I don’t know woman get emotional” and “the oval office is a mans job” “I don’t know if she can handle foreign policy” t
Basically men who couldn’t hold their fucking nose and set aside their machismo bullshit for the sake of everyone else and voted for the man. And I’m sure there were millions of them who felt this same way. These “conspiracy’s” overhadow the blatant misogyny that is obviously rampant in this country.
Oh and Gen X and Millennials who stayed the fuck home
This is a liberal pitfall: attempting to explain fascism rising because of identity politics.
I said this after the election and I do strongly believe that in a few years, we will find out just how corrupt the 2024 election really was.
Me too, on both points.
But spreading facebook memes throwing wild accusation without any sources is worse than useless.
Definitely the amount of brainrot on facebook, TikTok, and twitter is just wow…
I love spreading misinformation online
(It counts as misinformation until proven otherwise)
Everyone is doing it!
I couldn’t be fewer surprised.
You do not register a party in Texas.
