when@lemmy.world to Data is Beautiful@lemmy.worldEnglish · 5 days agoMinimal Voting Data of 2020 and 2024 US presidential election.lemmy.worldimagemessage-square152fedilinkarrow-up1654arrow-down158
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minus-squareXatolos@reddthat.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10arrow-down2·5 days agoThe problem also is that there was quite a bit of voter intimidation of people with Trump flags heavily armed in some places “to make sure it’s a fair election”, Trump supporters choosing violence, and other issues like ballot boxes being burned, and ballots not coming to people preventing them from voting. This could help explain why 10 million less votes happened this year for the Democrats because they could have been fearful of voting or just unable. (And this also doesn’t include mailing ballots just being refused to be counted over simple issues as signatures not looking close enough to what’s on file.)
The problem also is that there was quite a bit of voter intimidation of people with Trump flags heavily armed in some places “to make sure it’s a fair election”, Trump supporters choosing violence, and other issues like ballot boxes being burned, and ballots not coming to people preventing them from voting.
This could help explain why 10 million less votes happened this year for the Democrats because they could have been fearful of voting or just unable.
(And this also doesn’t include mailing ballots just being refused to be counted over simple issues as signatures not looking close enough to what’s on file.)