• theparadox@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    I’m not seeing turnout down by 20m. Where are you seeing this data? Note, we haven’t even finished counting all the votes.

    Admittedly, I was expecting there to be overwhelmingly high turnout and there wasn’t that from what I’ve seen.

    The dude won the popular vote. I’m sure a lot of the shady bullshit that happened all around the country to suppress voting inflated his lead a little bit but I don’t think it was substantial enough to explain this.

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      2 months ago

      Nearly every news outlet has reported record voter turnout, but look at the vote counts from 2020 vs this year.

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        2 months ago

        Wait until all the ballots are counted. Ballots still being counted aren’t in those totals but, obviously, they finished counting 2020. Shit, California is still like 60% counted at this point. And they’re at 10 million votes counted… that’s like 6.5 million more votes just estimating CA.