text:  in terms of total numbers of votes cast. So for example, 2012, there were about 129 million votes cast. In 2016, about 136 million votes cast. So an increase of about 10 million between 2012 and 2016. In 2020, there were 158 million votes cast. That's an increase of 22 million votes. By the way, 2012 was actually down from 2008.