Claim: At midnight of November 6, 2024 – just days after the U.S. presidential election – millions of cast votes had gone “missing.”
Ratings and Context : [2024 presidential elections].
Votes weren’t lost; they just hadn’t been counted yet.
With U.S. President-elect Donald Trump’s victory in 2024 presidential elections, one particular statistic caught social media users’ eye: In 2020’s elections, Democratic nominee Joe Biden earned over 81 million votes against Republican nominee Trump’s 74 million; yet in 2024’s vote count showed Trump with more than 72 million while Vice President Kamala Harris garnered only 68 million. Why the discrepancy?
Some Trump supporters claim the discrepancy in Democratic votes proves the 2020 election was stolen while Harris supporters assert that this evidence proves it as well as 2024 election was also stolen.
However, both assertions were false for one simple reason: those “missing” votes weren’t actually lost – they simply hadn’t been counted yet.
There is no central authority responsible for overseeing elections in the US; instead, hundreds of small-scale, locally administered polls take place simultaneously based on rules set at state levels; not all states provide quick tracking systems or can report election results quickly enough, however.
As states are no longer responsible, The Associated Press (AP), an election coverage authority with over 170-years’ worth of experience, takes on this duty for U.S. elections. Prior to 2024’s presidential election, in several articles published prior to poll closure and worker counting ballots starting, over 4,000 reporters at county election offices around the country wait anxiously as numbers come pouring in before sending these to its vote entry center – also responsible for monitoring state- and county-run websites that contain voting statistics gathered via polling places AP reports have helped predict its outcomes correctly before all votes have been counted and reported back for final predictions before all votes have been counted!
As new numbers come in, The AP updates their website regularly with any developments; then uses that data in combination with state voting histories and election stats to establish whether any candidate holds an unbeatable advantage, even when there are still ballots yet to counted – something it did when declaring Trump victorious in 2024, when millions had yet to be counted.
Snopes calculated using data provided by AP that as of noon Central Time on November 7 – two days post election – over 143.6 million ballots had been counted and reported across the nation, yet about 14.9 million still remained outstanding — approximately 10% had still not been counted yet.
Many outstanding ballots were in California, which had an estimated 8.2 million ballots left to count, followed by Arizona with over 1.1 million outstanding, 800,000 in Colorado, 750,000 in Washington state, 650,000 Maryland voters and 550,000 Oregonians still electing candidates through mail voting – which takes longer to count and some states allow mail-in ballots postmarked before Election Day to arrive late for count. The Associated Press also reported on these states having high mail voting rates allowing postmarked mail ballots postmark before Election Day arrive late to be counted and counted.
Due to the uncertainty associated with U.S. elections and because final vote totals may only become known once all ballots have been counted and declared official by The Associated Press and state election boards, it would be prudent not to compare overall voter turnout between elections until all the votes have been cast and verified through official sources such as The Associated Press or state election boards. (Sources).
“2024 Election Results Map.” AP NEWS. Accessed 7 November 2024. “Explaining Election 2024.” AP News Hub https://apnews.com/hub/explaining-election-2024 accessed 7 November 2024 “How AP Uses Expected Vote Instead of Reports when Determining Winners.” AP News, 8 Oct 2024, https://apnews.com/article/expected-vote-turnout-precincts-reporting-elections-dbf56f63d08d57c839d91bdb9a98ed19 “Presidential Election Results Map: Trump Wins.” The New York Times, 5 November 2024. NYTimes.com, https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/11/05/us/elections/results-president.html provides “How AP Has Predicted Election Winners Over 170 Years: Here Is How We Work”. “AP Announces Presidential Election Winners.” AP News, 8 Oct 2024; https://apnews.com/article/ap-race-calls-presidential-election-winners-1fd480f8ba2f37d0439b76e0c7071413. “Why and How AP Counts Votes in US Elections.” AP News; 8 October 2024; https://apnews.com/article/1d4178e42e42e2571033a01d0ca6ca5a93b Counting/1d4178e42e42e42e2571033a01d0ca6ca5a93b Counts All US Votes on These Candidates.” AP News article 8.October2024_VOTETEST1. _I
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