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does not have more people registered to vote than adults living in the state; official and reputable reporting shows registered voters are a subset — roughly three-quarters — of the state’s voting‑age...
The official 2024 Current Population Survey estimate shows roughly 174 million U.S. citizens of voting age were registered to vote in the 2024 presidential election (73.6% of the citizen voting‑age po...
Research assembled by academics and advocacy groups finds that strict photo voter ID laws are associated with reduced turnout among racial and ethnic minorities—studies report declines for Latino turn...
Independent, state-run post‑election audits and scholarly analyses show that audits of the 2020 U.S. presidential contest overwhelmingly confirmed the certified results: a nation‑scale study of availa...
("swing") states for Senate races have shrunk and shifted over time, producing fewer truly competitive contests and more long partisan winning streaks in individual states— 27 states currently in reco...
Since 2020 at the national level rose alongside record turnout in the , but the story diverges sharply by state: some states reported very high registration rates and gains, others modest increases or...
No provided reporting shows that any independent audit concluded ’s registered‑voter totals exceeded the state’s voting‑age population; instead, post‑2020 fact‑checks and state explanations traced to ...
Paper ballots were central to 2024 post‑election auditing: over 98% of jurisdictions used systems that produce an auditable paper record and many states ran risk‑limiting audits (RLAs) or hand‑count s...
Available reporting shows Republicans made sizeable registration gains in multiple states since 2020, with repeated mentions of large shifts in Nevada, Florida, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, and New J...
Donald J. Trump won the 2016 U.S. presidential election by securing a majority of Electoral College votes—304 electoral votes in most official tallies—defeating Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton, who...
Databases used to detect improper voter registrations generate through poor-quality inputs, simplistic matching rules, stale snapshots, and opaque third-party aggregators; these problems have led rese...
; instead it sets constraints on how audits may be conducted — principally preservation and chain‑of‑custody requirements and protections against voter intimidation — while leaving design, frequency a...
A single, authoritative list of which states publish certified county‑level 2024 vote returns in machine‑readable formats is not available in the reporting provided; however state election offices do ...
Official, certified county-by-county presidential returns for 2024 are published and downloadable from the individual state election offices that certified their results; aggregated national downloads...
A set of U.S. states are commonly described as having “strict” voter ID regimes—meaning voters who cannot present acceptable identification at the polling place are required to cast a provisional ball...
Vote-by-mail (VBM) ballots cast by genuine, certified citizen voters are highly reliable in the United States: administrators report widespread use of paper or auditable records, multilayer verificati...
About half of U.S. states and Washington, D.C., allow voters to register and vote on the same day (same-day or Election Day/conditional voter registration), but all states that permit it require some ...
Joe Biden, the Democratic nominee and former vice president, defeated incumbent President Donald Trump in the 2020 U.S. presidential election, winning 306 Electoral College votes to Trump’s 232 and ab...