The US Election 2020 appears to be inching closer to an outcome, with Democrat Joe Biden appeared to be a step away from winning the US presidential election as the latest count of votes from a handful of battleground states indicated that the re-election chances of incumbent Republican President Donald Trump are getting slim by the hour.
It takes 270 electoral votes to win the presidency as each state carries a specific number of electoral votes.
So far with the latest results collated and announced, Joe Biden is leading with 253 (50.5% – 73,736,399) against Donald Trump with 213 (47.7% – 69,655,365).
The 2020 US presidential election has recorded the highest voter turnout in 120 years, a prominent electoral expert has said. According to preliminary estimates of the US Election project, a nonpartisan site that tracks voting, an estimated 239 million people were eligible to vote this year, of which nearly 160 million exercised their right to franchise.
The figure is likely to be updated in the coming weeks.
The November 3 election saw a record voter turnout of 66.9%, which is the highest turnout rate since 1900. The 1900 election had recorded 73.7% voter turnout, it said.
“The 2020 presidential election had the highest turnout rate in 120 years. There is still a fair amount of guesswork involving outstanding ballots to be counted, said Michael P McDonald, Associate Professor of Political Science at University of Florida, who leads the US Election Project. In 2016, US had registered 56% voter turnout, while it was 58% in 2008.
Minnesota and Maine, as per the US Election Project, this year had the highest turnout of 79.2% each, followed by Iowa at 78.6%. Maine and Iowa was won by President Donald Trump and Minnesota by his Democratic rival Joe Biden.
According to CNN projections, this is how close the counting is currently: – Georgia: Trump leads by 665 votes (99% counting) – Nevada: Biden leads by 11,438 votes (84% counting) – Pennsylvania: Trump leads by 18,228 votes (97% counting) – Arizona: Biden leads by 47,052 votes (90% counting)
