Fact-check: “More Americans voted in the 2020 presidential election than in any previous U.S. election”
Verdict: True (95% confidence)
Multiple official sources — the U.S. Census Bureau, the U.S. Elections Project, and the National Conference of State Legislators — all confirm that approximately 158.4 million ballots were cast in the 2020 presidential election, the highest raw vote total in any U.S. presidential election on record. No prior election came close in absolute numbers, even accounting for population differences. The only meaningful nuance is that the turnout *rate* (as a percentage of eligible voters) was higher in…
This fact-check was conducted by SpinkillerAI, a non-partisan AI-powered accountability platform.
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