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The Trump campaign filed the most post-election lawsuits related to the 2020 United States presidential election in the swing states of Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin. It was a strategic decision to file lawsuits in these states that were too close to call during the night of election day and remained uncalled ...
Since the ratification of the United States Constitution in 1788, there have been 52 unsuccessful major party candidates for President of the United States. [a] Additionally, since 1796, eight third party or independent candidates have won at least ten percent of the popular or electoral vote, but all failed to win the presidency. Since the ...
As of October 2020, it was estimated that 5.1 million voting-age US citizens were disenfranchised for the 2020 presidential election on account of a felony conviction, 1 in 44 citizens. [3] As suffrage rights are generally bestowed by state law, state felony disenfranchisement laws also apply to elections to federal offices.
This article is a list of United States presidential candidates. The first U.S. presidential election was held in 1788–1789, followed by the second in 1792. Presidential elections have been held every four years thereafter. Presidential candidates win the election by winning a majority of the electoral vote.
e. Following the 2020 United States presidential election and the unsuccessful attempts by Donald Trump and various other Republican officials to overturn it, Republican lawmakers initiated a sweeping effort to make voting laws more restrictive within several states across the country. [ 2 ][ 3 ] According to the Brennan Center for Justice, as ...
Contested elections in American history. Contested elections in American history at the presidential level involve serious allegations by top officials that the election was " stolen." Such allegations appeared in 1824, 1876, 1912, 1960, [1] 2000, and 2020. Typically, the precise allegations change over time.
Democratic U.S. presidential nominee and former Vice President Joe Biden attends a campaign stop in Atlanta, Georgia, U.S. October 27, 2020. REUTERS/Brian Snyder TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY
Wired, The New York Times, and The Observer reported that the data-set had included information on 50 million Facebook users. [35] [36] While Cambridge Analytica claimed it had only collected 30 million Facebook user profiles, [37] Facebook later confirmed that it actually had data on potentially over 87 million users, [38] with 70.6 million of those people from the United States. [39]