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One factor impacting voter turnout of Black Americans is that, as of the 2000 election, 13% of Black American males are reportedly ineligible to vote nationwide because of a prior felony conviction; in certain states – Florida, Alabama, and Mississippi – disenfranchisement rates for Black American males in the 2000 election were around 30% ...
More Black Americans are uncertain whether they’ll vote in the upcoming 2024 presidential election compared to 2020. ... Black voter turnout has been historically lower than white turnout, ...
Florida had the highest voter turnout of red-voting states in 2020. Still, no Southern state made it to the top 10. Florida placed 14th with a 72.3% voter turnout, and North Carolina placed 15th ...
On Oct. 23, 2020, 566,162 Black voters had cast an in-person or mail-in ballot, according to state data. That compares with 358,880 this year — a difference of more than 207,000 votes.
Such seemingly disparate efforts all have a single goal: boost Black voter turnout ahead of Election Day. How Black communities turn out in the 2024 election has been scrutinized due to the pivotal role Black voters have played in races for the White House, Congress and state legislatures across the country.
The election saw the highest voter turnout as a percentage of eligible voters since 1900, [291] with each of the two main tickets receiving more than 74 million votes, surpassing Barack Obama's record of 69.5 million votes from 2008. [292]
Information from the John Locke Foundation found that, for the 2020 election, over 753,000 Black voters took part in early voting. So far in 2024, and with just days to go before early voting ends ...
A similar increase in 2024 would put the final vote count close to, but not beyond, the 2020 total. Election analyst Nate Silver projected the final tally will be around 155.3 million votes in a ...