Only 71.739 million people voted so far? (apnews.com)

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Is it my imagination or is that number extremely low?

I predicted to the lib I work with that voter turnout this election would be far lower than last time and he was adamant that it would be high; it should be a lot higher if it's going to meet the numbers from four years ago, shouldn't it?

I expected it to be low but I didn't think it would be this bad; if this number doesn't spike it's going to be worse than 2016.

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[-] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 22 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

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Early voting map: How to make sense of 2024 presidential election data

Oct. 31, 2024

[-] Evilsandwichman@hexbear.net 9 points 5 days ago

Um....if I'm understanding this chart right, this means the last time the numbers were this low was 2014?

[-] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 12 points 5 days ago

Unless I'm making a mistake - the blue bars are the key thing: "by mail or before election day". 2014 was 31.1.

[-] BodyBySisyphus@hexbear.net 10 points 5 days ago

The bars are shares, though. Assuming @vegeta1@hexbear.net's number of 154 million, 71 million is 46% of 2020's numbers

But 2020 was also unusually high-turnout and I'm assuming more people will vote in person this time around due to ending the covid restrictions, so I'm assuming the final proportion will be higher.

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