In the 2020 U.S. presidential election, an estimated 150 million voters will cast their ballots, the highest turnout in 112 years since 1908; by comparison, 137 million people voted in the 2016 election.
On November 26, eight days before the November 3 vote, the University of Florida’s “Independent Data Analysis Project” (U.S. Elections Project) released data showing that more than 60 million U.S. voters have cast their ballots early; the project’s director, Professor McDonald of the Department of Political Science ( Michael McDonald), estimates that 65% of eligible voters across the United States will vote in this year’s election.
The neo-coronavirus epidemic has not yet subsided, but early voting voters in all states were not afraid to wait in long lines outside the polling place: in Georgia, some voters stood in line for more than ten hours to complete the voting; Ohio and Virginia also saw a similar situation; New York State opened early voting on the 24th, and there were long lines outside the polling place in New York City, and voters waited for hours to vote. Many voters also chose to vote by mail, and statistics show that election authorities across the U.S. have received a total of about 40 million ballots by mail.
In key swing states, early voting and voting by mail have led to significant increases in pre-election turnout: about 1.4 million people have voted early in Pennsylvania so far, an increase of 1.2 million over the number of early voters in the state in 2016; the same is true in Michigan and Wisconsin, where the number of early voters this year has nearly doubled the number of early voters in 2016.
Texas, Georgia, and Ohio, have already surpassed their 2016 early voting totals, with 6.9 million people in Texas already voting, an increase of about 1.4 million votes compared to 2016, and more than 40 percent of the state’s voters have already cast their ballots.
Also according to NBC TV News and Target Smart, the number of early voters could reach 90 million to 100 million by Nov. 3, roughly double the number of early voters who voted in 2016.
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