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Huge numbers of people have voted by mail or at early in person polling sites amid concerns the coronavirus could spread at busy election day voting places.

Elections results august 2020. Early voting has steadily increased with each election year. Traditionally early vote totals are a minority of the total vote. By matt margolis oct 28 2020 553 pm et.

In 2016 according to the us election assistance commission 41 percent of the total votes were cast early in person or by mail. So what can we say about the state of the election based on early voting statistics. In four key states florida north carolina nevada and iowa republicans are beginning to narrow the democratic advantage in pre election day voting.

By federal law election officials do not begin counting ballots until election day although they may start the process of preparing ballots for counting in advance. In prior elections democrats have voted predominantly in person early and thats how they pile up their early voting numbers. State election officials across the us are reporting record numbers of voters casting their ballots ahead of election day on 3 november.

More than 29 million had voted early by monday either in. The opening of early voting locations in florida texas and elsewhere has piled millions of new votes on top of the mail ballots arriving at election offices as voters try to avoid crowded places. Voter data from l2 political was used to calculate the proportion of 2020 voters.

Heres what early voting numbers are telling us. This time around what were seeing democrats are voting by mail early. Historical early voting data and estimates of total 2016 ballots cast are from the united states elections project.

The number of people who voted early in the 2016 presidential election was more than five times the number who voted early 24 years.