Numbers Update and How Participatory Our Democracy Is [View all]
The AP Number update nationwide: https://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=electoral+votes+by+state+so+far&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8
Biden = 50.8%
76,327,446
Trump = 47.5%
71,430,824
(Difference = 4,896,622 so far)
Total votes = 147,758,270 out of the ...
Total registered voters as of Nov 3 2020 = 213,799,467
https://worldpopulationreview.com/state-rankings/number-of-registered-voters-by-state
Total voting age population (minus 74 mil minors and 10 mil immigrants = 246,000,000 (census)
Total population = 330,000,000 (census)
The real question is what percentage the Biden and Trump votes are a percentage OF -- the total vote, one can assume.
Later, when we want to talk about how representative the vote percentage is of America, we'd have to define that part of America a bit more clearly. In which case, all these numbers might or might not help explain how participatory our democracy is.
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