Did 20 million votes really go missing in the US election?
More or Less: Behind the Stats
BBC
4.6 • 3.5K Ratings
🗓️ 16 November 2024
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
Just hours after Donald Trump claimed victory in the US presidential election, rumours started swirling that something was afoot. A graph went viral on social media that appeared to show there were 20 million more votes cast in 2020 than in the 2024 election. Where had these supposedly “missing” votes gone? Conspiracy theorists on both sides of the political spectrum began shouting claims of fraud. The answer, it turns out, is rather more straightforward. Presenter: Charlotte McDonald Producer: Lizzy McNeill Series producer: Tom Colls Production co-ordinator: Katie Morrison Sound Mix: Hal Haines Editor: Richard Vadon
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| 0:00.0 | On a winter's night in 1974, a crime took place that would obsess the nation. |
| 0:07.0 | It was an extraordinary news story. |
| 0:09.0 | The story of an aristocrat, Lord Lucan, who's said to have killed the family Nanny, |
| 0:14.0 | mistaking her for his wife, then somehow just disappeared. |
| 0:18.0 | One of the great mysteries in English criminal history. We're still looking for Lucan. |
| 0:22.1 | It's honestly one of the most powerful stories of my lifetime. |
| 0:26.0 | I'm Alex von Tundselman. |
| 0:27.4 | This is The Lucan Obsession. |
| 0:29.2 | Listen on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:31.7 | Hello and thanks for downloading the more or less podcast. |
| 0:35.2 | We're the programme that looks at the numbers in the news, |
| 0:37.8 | and I'm Charlotte McDonald. |
| 0:43.4 | In the early hours of Wednesday, the 6th of November, this happened. |
| 0:48.1 | Well, I want to thank you all very much. |
| 0:50.2 | This is great. |
| 0:50.9 | Donald Trump, 45th president of the United States, became the 47th president of the United States. |
| 0:58.0 | Frankly, this was, I believe, his victory speech was jubilant, the greatest comeback of all time. |
| 1:04.0 | There's never been anything like this in this country and maybe beyond. |
| 1:08.0 | But despite Trump emerging victorious in this election, |
| 1:12.4 | just a few hours after his victory speech, |
| 1:15.1 | grievances of old began to resurface, |
| 1:17.9 | namely conspiracy theories about the 2020 election, |
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