Did Joe Biden Receive Millions More Votes Than There Were Eligible Voters?

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A viral article from Gateway Pundit claims that “simple math” proves President-elect Joe Biden received 13 million more votes “Than There Were Eligible Voters Who Voted in 2020 Election.”

The article is based on a viral tweet, which stated: “With 212Million registered voters and 66.2% voting,140.344 M voted.  Now if Trump got 74 M, that leaves only 66.344 M for Biden.”

The tweet author’s math is off slightly based on the information he provides: Adding up the number of registered voters per state as listed on the website cited results in a figure of 213,799,467 registered voters. But a bigger error is made in the tweet: The Washington Postarticle from which the 66.2 percent figure is pulled refers to the voter turnout among the eligible voting population, not registered voters, as stated in the tweet and the subsequent Gateway Pundit article. Not all eligible voters end up registering to vote, with an estimate from Pew Research based on census data in 2017 suggesting that 21.4 percent of eligible voters were not registered to vote in 2014. 

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  1. Jeff

    I'm shocked, shocked I say, that the math of these people was...incomplete.

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  2. rob

    As most of the Biden voters are just "mail in" voters, it is impossible to know how many of them are actually alive, cognizant, and living at the place they are registered at. As where Trump voters largely showed up to the polls instead of just "mailing it in". In every other election the person who "won" the election had voters that actually came out to the polls and vote.

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    Jaliranchr

    Thank you Alec. Sometimes you wonder how many intoxicants these people have consumed to come up with the wacky things they do. Then again, Gateway Pundit has always been off the scale wacky.

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    Blswope

    Alec, thank you for debunking these conspiracies. My hope is that this all ends soon. Joe Biden won the election plain and simple.

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