In The 2020 Presidential Election 65 Million Votes Were Not Counted

Isaac Newton Farris Jr
11 min readOct 9, 2024

In American democracy, a presidential election is the only election when all American citizens get a chance to cast a vote for the same elected office, the President of the United States. But ironically it’s the only elected office in America, where the person can win the one-person-one-vote-counted popular vote and still might not become President of the United States. It’s the only elected position in America where a person can lose the one-person-one-vote-counted majority total by receiving the 2nd largest amount of votes cast, but still win the office.

Every 4 years on the first Tuesday in the month of November a presidential election is held enabling all Americans the right to vote to elect the President, their individual Congressperson, and most times one of their two U.S. Senators, this year’s election will be on November 5th. If things go as they should all persons running for the U.S. House or Senate, who receive 51% or a plurality of the votes cast on Nov. 5th, will be declared officially the elected winner of the office they ran for by Nov. 6 th. Regardless of the vote totals for Kamala Harris or Donald Trump neither will officially be declared the winner on November 5th or Nov. 6 th, however, based on how many votes Harris or Trump receives one of them will be designated by Nov. 6th as the one expected to be elected…

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Isaac Newton Farris Jr
Isaac Newton Farris Jr

Written by Isaac Newton Farris Jr

Isaac Newton Farris Jr. is the nephew of Martin Luther King, Jr. and serves as Senior Fellow at the King Center.

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