It only gives you voters by state which means I'd have to add them all up. These are the number of registered voters according to Statista:
I added them all up. For the second time (first time in post #242). The total is just under 214 million. It was 213,799,467.
According to this graph, the highest amount of voters we had was 156 million in the previous presidential election. Even DumBama's races were in that area. You expect me to believe that we went from the high of 156 million to now 214 million? Remember, we only grew in population by 2 million people between 2018 and today.
Also in 2018, we had 253 million adults living in this country.
Statista doesn't show its sources unless you register, so I don't know where they get the data from. It's entirely possible they would provide a different number when it comes to registered voters in 2020.
That said, the chart does show that the number of registered voters has increased every presidential election year. There's no reason I'm aware of to think that 2020 would have changed from that trend; in fact, there are a few reasons to think that voter registration would have increased more than normal.
According to US Census information, there were 330,533,255 people in the US on Nov. 2. I used the latest age percentages they gave, from 2019, to determine that 11.36% of the population was below voting age. That would leave 292,984,677 voting age adults in the US on November 2, 2020 (I figured I'd go a day before the election).
The Census also puts the number of people in the US on Nov. 2, 2018 at 327,314,352. In 2018 it lists the voting age population as 88.54%, rather than the 88.64% of 2019. 88.54% of 327,314,352 is 289.804,127 voting age adults in the US. I don't know where you got your 253 million number from (maybe Statista again?) but it is quite different from the Census. Additionally, the Census numbers do not count "members of the Armed Forces overseas, their dependents, or other U.S. citizens residing outside the United States." On the other hand, it may count residents who are ineligible to vote.
I guess my point is that the number of people eligible to register and vote is a bit of a guesstimate.
Even if we go strictly from the chart you linked to, I think it's reasonable to think that the increase in registered voters would at least equal the increases seen between 2004 and 2008, or between 2008 and 2012. That would put the number of registered voters at at least 170 million. Given the circumstances - highly polarized political climate, large-scale issues facing the country, greater ease of voting, big pushes to register voters by both major parties - do you think it would be surprising to see a greater increase in both voter registration and voter turnout than other recent elections?
Do you really believe the United States only has 39 million people that are not registered to vote? We have over 2.3 million prisoners in our prisons alone. Then the millions of felons that most states don't allow to vote.
The numbers simply don't add up.
I covered this by pointing out the different numbers on population and registered voters found at different sites.
If I could be sure that the Statista numbers are accurate, and if they provided numbers for 2020, it would probably be easier to support your argument. Unfortunately, I have found differing numbers from other locations, and Statista does not provide numbers for 2020, so while I'm not dismissing your argument, it isn't entirely convincing, either.
