Census Bureau voter tally is self-reported, not official election data
Copyright AFP 2017-2021. All rights reserved. Articles and social media posts claim US Census Bureau figures show that nearly four million fewer voters cast ballots in the 2020 presidential election than the official tally, raising questions about the integrity of the result. But the number cited is an incomplete, self-reported measure of how many people voted, the Census Bureau described the claims as inaccurate, and a political scientist called the fraud suggestion absurd. “More unexplainable numbers from 2020 election,” the broadcaster David J Harris Jr tweeted on May 12, 2021, linking...