JL-026 · Prof Jiang Xueqin · said
The November 2024 US presidential election will have one of the lowest voter turnouts in American history.
Prof Jiang Xueqin said this on 7 June 2024. Our assessment, on the public evidence linked below, is wrong.
What Prof Jiang Xueqin said
“in November 2024, we will see the lowest turnout one of the lowest turnouts of voters in American history”
Our assessment
Turnout in November 2024 was among the highest in more than a century, not the lowest. The Census Bureau put it at 65.3 percent of citizen voting-age population, and Pew ranks the 64 percent eligible-voter rate as the second highest since 1908, behind only 2020.
Evidence
This is our opinion, reached from the quote alongside it and the evidence linked here. How we score.
Verdict history 1
- reviewed batch, 3 August 2026Pending changed to Wrong
Turnout in November 2024 was among the highest in more than a century, not the lowest. The Census Bureau put it at 65.3 percent of citizen voting-age population, and Pew ranks the 64 percent eligible-voter rate as the second highest since 1908, behind only 2020.