President Joe Biden received 81,, votes, while former President Donald Trump won 74,, votes, a difference of 7,, votes. In the Electoral College , Biden received over Trump's Because of the COVID pandemic, many states expanded vote-by-mail to help people safely vote in the election.
It is believed that the availability of mail voting helped increase overall voter turnout. The highest voter turnout was in Minnesota , where Colorado follows with A number of countries in the world practice compulsory voting according to their electoral laws. Voting Age Population VAP refers to the total number of potential voters of voting age in a given country. The VAP figure is a rough estimate and it does not take into account the fact that there might be people who are above voting age but still not enfranchised due to legal or systemic barriers.
The estimate gives an approximate figure of the number of eligible people but it does not reflect the exact number. VAP might differ largely from the number of registered people since registration in many countries is voluntary or not accurate. In countries where registration is compulsory and automatic, and based on the civil register, for example as in the Scandinavian countries, the VAP figure and the number of registered voters are quite close. Where can I find some country specific information on election administration and data on electoral practices?
It is a comprehensive and systematic collection of information on every aspect relating to the organisation and implementation of elections. Access the ACE network at www. Which is the minimum voting age? The most common voting age in the world is 18 years.
Twenty or twenty-one is also used in some countries. Some countries such as Argentina, Austria, Brazil, and Cuba have the lowest voting age in the world and allow 16 year olds to vote. The highest voting age is 21 and this is practised in several countries such as Lebanon, Oman, Tonga and Singapore. What is voting by mail and internet voting? Voting by mail is the most common form of absentee voting. There has been much discussion on the use of Internet voting as a method for increasing voter turnout at elections.
In some countries, the VAP figure is smaller than the number of registered voters. How is this possible? The fact that some countries display a larger number of registered voters than voting age population VAP might seem odd. In some cases this is the result of a typo or inaccurate information provided by the EMB, but it might also be caused by a number of issues relating to both the process of registration and the actual estimation of the figures.
The first thing that is important to remember is that the figures for voting age population are always based on estimates. As with all estimates, the numbers might be significantly different from the true values.
Also, worthy of notice is that the data collected for VAP on the one hand, and the data for registered voters on the other, are acquired from different sources mainly the Electoral Management Body in the case of the latter, and UN Demographic Yearbook for the former. These sources might in turn also use different estimates, resulting in discrepancies between the two measures. Finally, the number of registered voters can be inaccurate if the voters list is flawed.
There might be asymmetries present in the registration process; some voters could be registered twice or the authorities might have failed to remove certain people who are no longer eligible to vote such as deceased voters or voters who have left the country.
This might be because of short-comings in the way that registration of voters is organized unclear delegation of responsibility between institutions, problems of communication etc. Can I get a complete export of all the data? Corrected registration figures. Turnout is usually discussed as a ratio although always based on a count of votes cast. The numerator is the number of votes cast. Various measures may be used as the denominator: 1 The Voting Age Population —broadly speaking it is the population above the legal voting age; 2 Voting Eligible Population —all citizens who are not excluded from voting because of some legal impediment; 3 Registered voters.
Reported measures of each of these has varied somewhat over time as estimates have been revised and refined. Three propositions underlie most research on turnout. But before the numbers used are always adjusted for the shifting definition of citizens with voting rights. So women are excluded prior to Voting Eligible Population is an attempt to make an even more precise definition of the population of people who have a legal right to vote—potential voters.
Comparing U. Political scientists often define turnout as votes cast divided by the estimated number of eligible voters. But eligible-voter estimates are difficult or impossible to find for many nations. We calculated turnout rates for the most recent national election in each country, except in cases where that election was for a largely ceremonial position or for European Parliament members turnout is often substantially lower in such elections.
Census Bureau, the Office of the Clerk of the U. Overall, Just over House of Representatives which include more than , blank, spoiled or otherwise null ballots. The One factor behind the consistently high turnout rates in Australia and Belgium may be that they are among the 21 nations around the world , including six in the OECD, with some form of compulsory voting.
One canton in Switzerland has compulsory voting as well. In Chile, for example, turnout plunged after the country moved from compulsory to voluntary voting in and began automatically putting all eligible citizens on the voter rolls.
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