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In a united states presidential election the popular vote is the total number or percentage of votes cast for a candidate by voters in the 50 states and washington dc.

Senate elections 2022. Early voting in 2020 has now surpassed the 58 million mail in or in person early votes cast in 2016 based on associated press totals and reached over 50 of the more than 136 million total. 2012 election turnout dips below 2008 and 2004 levels. The candidate who gets the most votes nationwide is said to have won the popular votehowever the popular vote is not used to determine who is elected as the nations president or vice president.

Nationally voters have cast 723 of the total votes counted in the 2016 general election. The election of the president and the vice president of the united states is an indirect election in which citizens of the united states who are registered to vote in one of the fifty us. States or in washington dc cast ballots not directly for those offices but instead for members of the electoral college.

Presidential election according to a tally on thursday from the us. Elections project at the university of florida setting the stage. These electors then cast direct votes known as electoral votes for president.

Number of eligible voters increases by eight million five million fewer votes cast pdf. Voter turnout in presidential. Mail ballots requested voters have requested a total of 92148998 ballots in the reporting states.

A website tracking early voting numbers reports more than 23500000 votes have been cast in the 2020 presidential election as of friday night. More than 80 million americans have cast ballots in the us.