More than 211 million people were active registered voters for the 2024 general election.<\/p>\n
And over 158 million voters cast ballots in last year’s presidential election.<\/p>\n
Those figures are according to a report issued to Congress by the U.S. Election Assistance Commission (EAC), which has been conducting election administration and voter surveys of federal elections for two decades.<\/p>\n
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The commission touts that it ‘provides the most comprehensive source of state- and local jurisdiction-level data about election administration in the United States.’<\/p>\n
More than 85% of voting-age Americans registered as active voters last year \u2014 the highest level on record, according to the report.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
And voter turnout was the second highest in the past five presidential elections, trailing only the 2020 election.<\/p>\n
The turnout of 64.7% of the citizen voting age population in the U.S. was a slight 3% drop compared to four years earlier.<\/p>\n
Nearly three-quarters of those who voted last year cast their ballots in person \u2014 with 35.2% voting in person ahead of Election Day and 37.4% voting on Election Day.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
According to the report, 30.3% voted by mail. That’s a drop from the 43% who voted by mail during the 2020 election, which, amid the COVID-19 pandemic, was the highwater mark for mail-in balloting.<\/p>\n
But the report noted that the percentage of people who voted by mail in 2025 was ‘still larger than the percentage of the electorate that voted by mail in pre-pandemic elections.’<\/p>\n
President Donald Trump won back the White House in last year’s election, with Republicans taking back control of the Senate and holding on to their razor-thin majority in the House.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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