The turnout in the 2020 US presidential elections was the highest in the past 120 years. This is evidenced by data from the United States Election Project, published in Twitter November 4th.
Political analyst Michael McDonald, who heads this project, noted that according to preliminary information, 160 million people voted in the elections, thus the turnout was 66.9%, Gazeta.ru writes.
“This is not a typo. In the 2020 presidential election, turnout was the highest in 120 years. There are still a lot of guesses related to the counting of unverified ballots. I will continue to refine these estimates in the coming weeks, ”McDonald said.
In 1900, the electoral turnout was 73.7%.
The counting of votes is in progress. Democratic candidate Joe Biden is ahead of his GOP rival incumbent President Donald Trump in both the number of his citizens and the number of voters who supported him, as shown by data from Fox News.
Trump called it “strange” the loss of leadership in some states, where he was ahead of his opponent Biden the day before. Biden’s headquarters have already announced his victory in the struggle for the post of head of state and announced that they will defend the results of these elections.
According to the Izvestia correspondent, on November 4, the situation in the center of Washington was tense. In particular, there were clashes with the police, and near the White House protesters completely burned the American flag.
The US electoral system provides for an indirect election of the head of state, who is elected by an electoral college of 538 people representing their states. The number of electors from each state is equal to the number of representatives of the state in Congress. In elections, electors must vote for the candidate who previously won in their state, but there is no law binding them to this. Thus, a candidate can get more American votes than an opponent, but lose the election due to fewer electoral votes.