Wisconsin Didn't Count More Votes Than Registered Voters

Zach Rathner

Politics

4th November 2020

Wisconsin Didn't Count More Votes Than Registered Voters

Wisconsin pollsters follow strict regulations (Getty Images).

The Claim

Wisconsin counted more than 110,000 votes over the number of registered voters in the state.

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Following the 2020 election, a rumor on social media began to spread stating that Wisconsin had counted more votes that it had registered voters.

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Users across social media continued to push this claim.

Misbar’s Analysis

The Misbar team has determined that this claim is false. The alleged claim is comparing the total 2020 vote count to the number of registered voters in 2018.

The Wisconsin Election Commission showed 3,684,726 active registered voters on November 1, 2020. The New York Times is reporting that at the time of this writing, 3,297,137 votes have been reported in Wisconsin. The data reflecting 3,129,000 registered voters in Wisconsin stems from the 2018 midterms, according to the United States Census Bureau.

According to data from the United States Census Bureau concerning “Voting and Registration in the Election of November 2018,” Wisconsin had 3,129,000 registered voters in 2018.

The Wisconsin Election Commission later tweeted the number of active registered voters in the state as of November 1, 2020. The author of the claim that implied fraud has since deleted the tweet from his timeline.