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The claim: There are just 133 million registered voters in the United states

The 2020 election season saw record voter turnout across the country. President-elect Joe Biden at present holds the record for the most votes received by a presidential candidate, after getting more than than 81 million.

Despite losing dozens of lawsuits and the Electoral College's certification of Biden's win, President Donald Trump's campaign and others continue to promote falsehoods about the brownie and security of the election.

A Dec. 21 Facebook post, which pulled a screenshot of a Twitter mail service, claimed Biden somehow received 22 million phantom votes. The postal service has over 1,200 shares, every bit of Dec. 30.

"Simple math: Trump got 74 million votes and there are simply 133 meg registered voters in the USA," the tweet claims. "Even if everyone who's registered actually voted, in that location would only exist 59 million votes left for Biden. So how the hell did Biden go 81 million votes? 22 1000000 extra?"

The Facebook user who made that detail post has not returned a asking for annotate from The states TODAY.

Another Facebook user fabricated the aforementioned claim without pulling a screenshot from Twitter. USA TODAY has also reached out to this user for comment.

And the Twitter business relationship MSM Fact Checking posted a similar claim on Dec. eighteen, from which many viral Facebook posts stem.

In a follow-up tweet, the MSM Fact Checking Twitter business relationship tries to testify its math: "Just to clarify there were 213,799,485 registered voters in 2020 of which conflicting sources say turnout was between threescore% - 65%. I averaged information technology out at 62.5% which ways just over 133,500,000 registered voters voted. 74,000,000 Trump + 81,000,000 Biden = 155,000,000."

And and so, "But for complete transparency, even at 65% turnout the total would be just over 138,000,000 voters resulting in over 155,000,000 votes. However you lot look at it, it doesn't add up."

The MSM Fact Checking account has its directly messaging turned off so it could not be reached for annotate.

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Voter registration and turnout totals

The postal service is correct in its accounting of Trump's vote totals. He received more than 74 million votes. The vote total for Biden, 81 million, also is right, putting the overall total at more than 155 million votes cast.

What the tweets get wrong is the number of voters. There are more than 234 one thousand thousand people eligible to vote in the U.S. Not all of those people are registered voters, nonetheless.

In its thread of tweets, the account MSM Fact Checking provided conflicting calculations without citing sources. The initial post claimed there were 133 meg registered voters. In another tweet, information technology claimed there were 213 million registered voters with a voter turnout rate of 62.5%. All of these numbers are false.

We know, after weeks of counting, that there were roughly 159 million ballots bandage in the presidential election. Co-ordinate to the Election Project, this accounts for 66.seven% of the eligible voting population of 239 million Americans..

The U.S. Census Agency publishes voter registration totals for the nation; its 2020 numbers are non nonetheless available.

But for case, in the 2016 presidential election, there were 157 million registered voters. Of those, 137.5 million voted. And there were 224 million American citizens age xviii or older. All figures are higher than the number in the merits regarding the 2020 election, when voter registration and turnout broke records.

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Our ruling: Partly imitation

The claim in the mail is rated PARTLY Simulated. The tweet that appears in viral Facebook posts cites correct vote totals for Trump (74 million) and Biden (81 million). But it falsely reports the number of registered voters. More 159 meg registered voters cast ballots in the general election, out of 239 million eligible voters. So it is completely possible that Trump and Biden would post that many total votes.

Our fact-check sources:

USA TODAY, December. iv, 2020, "'Democracy prevailed': Joe Biden passes 270-vote threshold to win Electoral College"
Usa TODAY, Nov. 10, "Iv maps that show how America voted in the 2020 election with results past canton, number of voters"
USA TODAY, Dec. xviii, "2020 Presidential Election Results & Electoral Map"
The Washington Postal service, Dec. 18, "2020 turnout is the
highest in over a century"
U.s.a. Election Projection, Dec. vii, "2020 November Full general Election Turnout Rates'
U.S. Census Agency, May 2017, "Voting and Registration in the Election of November 2016"
Arizona Secretary of State, "Voter Registration Counts"

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