Biden Is Projected To Be The President-Elect. Here’s How It All Went Down.

Harris also mentioned the record numbers that turned out to vote, and, boy, does that look to be the case — we are at about 150 million total votes in the presidential race. But with many votes left to be counted, it looks like this election will set a record for turnout among the voting-eligible population in elections since 1971, when the voting age was lowered to 18. As things stand, just over 62 percent of the voting-eligible population has turned out, but that number will likely climb to 63 or 64 percent in the coming days, especially as California completes its tally. The previous post-1971 high was 61.6 percent in 2008, according to data from the United States Elections Project.