More states are offering early voting options, and once a state adopts early voting more people vote early a part of their election regimen. In a handful of states, primarily in the South and North-East, excuse-required absentee voting is still the only early voting option. The federal law setting a uniform day of voting still stands, so why is early voting is legal? As long as election officials don't count votes until Election Day, early voting is legal. A state, like battleground Pennsylvania, has excused-required absentee voting, and so we should see a single digit percentage of early voting.

Source: Huffington Post September 29, 2016 02:37 UTC