While votes are still being counted, voter turnout in the 2024 presidential election is on track to be on par with the historically large 2020 presidential election. As a majority of voters mailed their ballots in for the 2020 presidential election,

Iowa, a state with a similar number of people eligible to vote, had a turnout rate of 71% compared to Oklahoma's 53.4%. Iowa had a 20-day early voting window when voters in the state could vote at their county auditor's office or by mail.

Fewer than 78% of the state’s 5 million registered voters cast ballots in the Nov. 5 election, the lowest turnout since 2000, when just 75.5% participated.

I didn’t appreciate how it felt like we had a candidate shoved down our throats without a say,” one Democratic voter said of Kamala Harris.