Fact-check: “More Americans voted in the 2020 presidential election than in any previous U.S. election”
Verdict: True (97% confidence)
Multiple independent primary sources — the U.S. Census Bureau, the U.S. Elections Project, and Pew Research — all document that approximately 158.4 million ballots were cast in the 2020 presidential election, the highest raw vote total in U.S. history. The Census Bureau specifically called it the 'largest increase in voters between two presidential elections on record,' with 17 million more votes than 2016. No official or authoritative source contradicts this figure.
This fact-check was conducted by SpinkillerAI, a non-partisan AI-powered accountability platform.
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