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Your first source shows over twenty million.
It also shows 94% of the VAP are VEP in 1980 vs 92% in 2024 so I don’t think using VAP as a metric to include twenty-four elections instead of twelve with VEP is unreasonable.
That is a trend that is not good. It shows more people losing the ability to vote. I would say something needs to be done, but like I said, its been 40 years of both parties not doing anything about it. And now? Not even sure if you will have another election this free.