Talk:2020 United States presidential election
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question? about the infobox:
[edit]States carried:
25 + ME-02
Why are ME-02 and NE-02 included as States carried ?
69.181.17.113 (talk) 01:37, 25 October 2024 (UTC)
- Because they each count as an electoral vote. --Super Goku V (talk) 10:34, 8 November 2024 (UTC)
Lead sentence wording discussion
[edit]I have proposed that the lead sentences of the articles about US presidential elections be reworded. The discussion is here. Surtsicna (talk) 18:15, 4 November 2024 (UTC)
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Change Turnout from 66.6% to 92.4%.
There was 168.3 registered voters in 2020 and this article shows 155.5 people voted. That means 92.4% of voters voted. Registered voter’s reference: https://www.statista.com/statistics/273743/number-of-registered-voters-in-the-united-states/ 98.176.156.153 (talk) 23:29, 7 November 2024 (UTC)
- Not done: per the citation, the denominator is all voting-age citizens. Hyphenation Expert (talk) 01:37, 8 November 2024 (UTC)
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The US Elections Project citations are a mess. There are three copies of the citation on the page:
<ref>{{Cite web|title=US Elections Project – 2020g|url=https://www.electproject.org/2020g|access-date=November 14, 2022|website=www.electproject.org|archive-date=April 30, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210430220622/http://www.electproject.org/2020g|url-status=live}}</ref> <ref>{{Cite web|title=US Elections Project – 2016g|url=https://www.electproject.org/2020g|access-date=November 14, 2022|website=www.electproject.org|archive-date=April 30, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210430220622/http://www.electproject.org/2020g|url-status=live}}</ref> <ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.electproject.org/2020g|title=2020 November general election turnout rates|work=United States Election Project|date=October 7, 2020|access-date=November 8, 2020|archive-date=November 7, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201107042631/http://www.electproject.org/2020g|url-status=live}}</ref>
The first one is mostly correct. The second one was supposed to cite turnout from 2016, but the URL is wrong. The third one is fine, but it duplicates the first one.
I suggest replacing the first one with
<ref name="Elections Project 2020g">{{Cite web|title=2020 November General Election Turnout Rates|work=United States Election Project|url=https://www.electproject.org/2020g|access-date=November 14, 2022|website=www.electproject.org|archive-date=April 30, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210430220622/http://www.electproject.org/2020g|url-status=live</ref>
the second one with
<ref>{{Cite web|title=2016 November General Election Turnout Rates|work=United States Election Project|url=https://www.electproject.org/2016g|website=www.electproject.org|url-status=live</ref>
and the third one with
<ref name="Elections Project 2020g"/>
. 185.47.220.165 (talk) 20:56, 8 November 2024 (UTC)
- Done, thanks. DrOrinScrivello (talk) 22:57, 13 November 2024 (UTC)
- Oops, sorry, I forgot the closing braces (
}}
) for the templates, so they do not render correctly. I didn't notice my mistake because I couldn't preview the change. Could you (or someone else) please add them in? Thanks 185.47.220.165 (talk) 23:10, 18 November 2024 (UTC)
- Oops, sorry, I forgot the closing braces (
- Done Thanks for the citation cleanup - I've made the changes, without any attempt going wrong.. FifthFive (talk) 00:08, 19 November 2024 (UTC)
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