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.
Related fact-checks
- Pete hegseth uses cocaine — Unverifiable
- Pete hegseth is a drunk — Partly True
- September is a good time to see whales in the waters around Greenland — True
- In 1979 America was ranked #1 in education and 46 years later we are ranked #40 — False
- Over 1000 people are killed by US police every year. — Mostly True