Not necessarily, but people are born every day, and more people become qualified to vote every day by turning 18 or becoming naturalized citizens.
We are in the midst of a pandemic. That should be a no-brainer. However, in Texas, mail-in ballots were only available to those 65 and older.
There was a candidate for mayor of Carrollton (a city just northeast of Dallas) who allegedly filled out requests for absentee ballots for 109 nursing home residents. He was caught easily and no ballots were cast.
The 2016 election was portrayed by the media as nearly a sure thing for Hillary Clinton, so I know Republicans who could not stand Trump but also couldn’t bring themselves to vote for Hillary Clinton. They either voted 3rd party for Gary Johnson (who got 4,489,233 votes) or did not vote. Jill Stein also picked up 1,457,216 votes. So we are looking at almost 6 million votes that did not go to the major parties. By comparison, Kanye West received only around 60,000 in the 2020 election.
if we add the growth in legal voter population and the enormous interest in this election, it is absolute conceivable that both Trump and Biden received a record number of votes.
Sure, but there is nothing suspicious about the quantity of votes.