Fact-check: “More Americans voted in the 2020 presidential election than in any previous U.S. election”
Verdict: True (97% confidence)
Multiple official sources — including the U.S. Census Bureau, the U.S. Elections Project, and the National Conference of State Legislators — all document that approximately 158.4 million ballots were cast in the 2020 presidential election, the highest raw vote total in U.S. history. No prior election comes close in raw numbers: the 1960 election saw roughly 68.8 million votes, and even accounting for high-turnout eras like 1908, the absolute vote counts were far lower due to smaller populations…
This fact-check was conducted by SpinkillerAI, a non-partisan AI-powered accountability platform.
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