Supporters of restoring Florida felons' voting rights at an early voting precinct, Saturday, October in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. The state began in-person early voting in much of the state Monday. Previous NextNine days before election day in the United States more people already have cast ballots in this year’s presidential election than voted early or absentee in the 2016 race as the start of in-person early voting in big states led to a surge in turnout in recent days. The result is a total of 58.6 million ballots cast so far, more than the 58 million that The Associated Press logged as being cast through the mail or at in-person early voting sites in 2016. Republican voters have begun to show up as early in-person voting, a sign that many heeded President Donald Trump’s unfounded warnings about mail-voting fraud.

Source: The Standard October 25, 2020 23:03 UTC