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The merits: At that place are but 133 million registered voters in the The states

The 2020 election season saw record voter turnout across the state. President-elect Joe Biden now holds the tape for the most votes received by a presidential candidate, subsequently getting more than than 81 1000000.

Despite losing dozens of lawsuits and the Electoral Higher'south certification of Biden's win, President Donald Trump'south campaign and others keep to promote falsehoods nigh the credibility and security of the election.

A December. 21 Facebook post, which pulled a screenshot of a Twitter post, claimed Biden somehow received 22 million phantom votes. The mail has over ane,200 shares, every bit of Dec. thirty.

"Simple math: Trump got 74 million votes and there are just 133 million registered voters in the USA," the tweet claims. "Even if everyone who'southward registered really voted, there would just be 59 million votes left for Biden. Then how the hell did Biden become 81 million votes? 22 meg extra?"

The Facebook user who fabricated that particular post has not returned a request for annotate from Us TODAY.

Another Facebook user made the same claim without pulling a screenshot from Twitter. USA TODAY has likewise reached out to this user for comment.

And the Twitter account MSM Fact Checking posted a similar claim on December. eighteen, from which many viral Facebook posts stem.

In a follow-up tweet, the MSM Fact Checking Twitter business relationship tries to bear witness its math: "Merely to analyze there were 213,799,485 registered voters in 2020 of which conflicting sources say turnout was between 60% - 65%. I averaged it out at 62.5% which means simply over 133,500,000 registered voters voted. 74,000,000 Trump + 81,000,000 Biden = 155,000,000."

And then, "Just for complete transparency, even at 65% turnout the total would be just over 138,000,000 voters resulting in over 155,000,000 votes. However you look at it, it doesn't add up."

The MSM Fact Checking business relationship has its direct messaging turned off so information technology could not be reached for comment.

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Voter registration and turnout totals

The mail service is right in its accounting of Trump's vote totals. He received more than 74 meg votes. The vote total for Biden, 81 million, also is correct, putting the overall total at more than than 155 million votes cast.

What the tweets get wrong is the number of voters. At that place are more than 234 meg people eligible to vote in the U.Southward. Not all of those people are registered voters, nonetheless.

In its thread of tweets, the account MSM Fact Checking provided conflicting calculations without citing sources. The initial mail claimed in that location were 133 million registered voters. In another tweet, it claimed there were 213 million registered voters with a voter turnout charge per unit of 62.v%. All of these numbers are false.

Nosotros know, after weeks of counting, that at that place were roughly 159 million ballots cast in the presidential election. According to the Ballot Project, this accounts for 66.vii% of the eligible voting population of 239 one thousand thousand Americans..

The U.S. Census Bureau publishes voter registration totals for the nation; its 2020 numbers are non yet available.

But for case, in the 2016 presidential election, there were 157 million registered voters. Of those, 137.5 one thousand thousand voted. And in that location were 224 million American citizens age eighteen or older. All figures are higher than the number in the merits regarding the 2020 election, when voter registration and turnout bankrupt records.

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Our ruling: Partly false

The claim in the post is rated PARTLY Imitation. The tweet that appears in viral Facebook posts cites correct vote totals for Trump (74 million) and Biden (81 million). But it falsely reports the number of registered voters. More than than 159 million registered voters cast ballots in the full general election, out of 239 1000000 eligible voters. Then it is completely possible that Trump and Biden would mail that many total votes.

Our fact-check sources:

U.s.a. TODAY, Dec. 4, 2020, "'Commonwealth prevailed': Joe Biden passes 270-vote threshold to win Electoral College"
USA TODAY, Nov. 10, "Four maps that show how America voted in the 2020 ballot with results by county, number of voters"
United states of america TODAY, Dec. 18, "2020 Presidential Election Results & Electoral Map"
The Washington Post, December. 18, "2020 turnout is the
highest in over a century"
U.s. Election Project, December. seven, "2020 November General Election Turnout Rates'
U.Southward. Census Bureau, May 2017, "Voting and Registration in the Ballot of November 2016"
Arizona Secretary of Country, "Voter Registration Counts"

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