From Axios.com:
Tuesday's turnout rate of the voting-eligible population eclipsed elections in most Americans' lifetimes, and is on pace to break a century-old record,per the WashPost:
- The latest figure (61.5%) stands only a few points away from breaking a 60-year-old record set in 1960 (63.8%).
- If the current projection of 66.3% holds, 2020 turnout will be the highest since 1900, when 73.7% of eligible Americans cast ballots: "But America had a much smaller voting pool over a century ago. Women did not yet have the right to vote, nor did Asian Americans and many Native Americans."
Records from 1980 were broken in at least 31 states.