Biden Received 81 Million Votes
The Claim
Trump received 77 million votes in the election, whilst Biden only received 66 million.
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It’s been a wild election season, both before and after the votes were counted. With Trump refusing to concede and making allegations of election fraud, there’s been plenty of false accusations of the election. One such person is Bill Binney, a former intelligence official in the National Security Agency.
He read an article on the Washington Post’s website that showed that 2020 had the biggest voter turnout in history. Using data from the article, Binney asserted that the official voting numbers don’t add up. He said that there were 212 million voters with a 66.2 percent voter turnout. Since Trump got 74 million votes, that’d leave only 66 million for Biden – 140 million votes total. Binney assumes that this is due to election fraud.
Misbar’s Analysis
Binney doesn’t seem to have his facts straight, either from human error or manipulative intent. As per the Washington Post article, that 66 percent isn’t referring to a voter turnout of registered voters – it’s referring to eligible voters. There were actually 158 million votes. Biden received 81 million, whereas Trump got 74 million.
