A large number of these votes comes from sixteen states which have already seen more than half of their registered voters voting.
The surge to vote early has led to predictions that this election could see a record turnout of about 150 million, representing 65 percent of eligible voters. This would be the highest rate since 1908, says a report by Reuters.
According to the report by The Guardian, early voting includes both in-person votes and mail-in and absentee ballots. As of Sunday afternoon, there have been 34,004,455 in-person votes, 59,126,562 mailed ballots returned to the election authorities, while there are still 32,084,041 outstanding mail ballots.
The surge in these comes amid the COVID-19 pandemic, which has forced election authorities to extend their early voting period and offer mail-in ballots more widely than before.
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