alt Hacker News2024: > More than 155 million people cast ballots in the 2024 presidential election. It's second only in U.S. history to the 2020 election. Turnout in 2024 represented 63.9% of eligible voters, the second-highest percentage in the last 100 years, according to the University of Florida Election Lab. The only year that beat it – again – was 2020 when universal mail-in voting was more widely available.
2020: > More than 158 million votes were cast in the election
So 3 millions of Democrats suddenly decided to not go out to vote "to save democracy" against "fascism"?
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The simpler and much more likely answer, my friend, is that people didn’t vote from a combination of disillusionment, assuming Kamala would win, and likewise factors.
I saw many people close to me not bother voting because they didn’t enjoy Biden’s presidency, despite voting for him in 2020.
So, I find that FAR more likely as a reason than supposed election fraud.
> The only year that beat it – again – was 2020 when universal mail-in voting was more widely available.
You answered your own question. Voting was made more difficult in 2024, so fewer votes were cast.