Slightly confused, and I was wondering if you could help? In the 2020 US presidential election the Democrats, under Biden, received just over 81m votes and Trump received just over 74m votes. The turnout was 66%.

In the US election that has just been held the Democrats, under Harris, have received 69m votes and Trump has 73.5m votes, he's approaching the number of votes he won in 2020. The turnout for this election is virtually the same at 66%, although it looks like it will probably be a bit less.

I know there is still some counting going on but we are nearing the end with only Arizona to declare, they have now counted 78% of the votes.

So if the same volume of people have turned out to vote in this election as in 2020 and given the votes for Trump and Harris as above, we are missing 12m votes. I have checked the other candidates who were listed on the ballot paper in each state and they have received nowhere near 12m votes between them. So where have these votes gone?