93 Million And Counting: Americans Are Shattering Early Voting Records
Americans have cast 93 million early ballots as of Sunday afternoon, putting the 2020 election on track for historic levels of voter turnout.
by Barbara Sprunt
Nov 01, 2020
4 minutes
Americans have cast a record-breaking 93 million early ballots as of Sunday afternoon, putting the 2020 election on track for historic levels of voter turnout.
That's almost twice as many pre-election votes as were cast in the 2016 election, according to the U.S. Elections Project, a turnout-tracking database run by University of Florida professor Michael McDonald.
McDonald calculates that nationally, voters have cast nearly 68% of the total votes counted in the 2016 election.
"We continue to pile on votes at a record pace. We've already passed any raw number of early votes in any prior election
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