More than 44.2 million people cast early ballots in the midterm election as voters prepare to take to the polls for the final chance to cast their ballots on Election Day.
Because early votes cannot be counted until polls are closed in some states many tight races may take an extra day or so to be decided as voters walk to the polls on the traditional voting day.
According to the United States Election Project at the University of Florida, Texas and California led the country with more than five million people voting early in each state, followed by Florida with 4.7 million.
In Georgia, where Sen. Raphael Warnock, D-Ga., is trying to hold on to his seat in the Red State against former football star Hershel Walker, R-Ga., a record 2.5 million cast their ballots early as of Saturday, shattering the old record of 2.1 million by 20%.
Arizona, which has been marred by allegations, investigations over early voting fraud and even voter intimidation claims, those turning in ballots ahead of time is down from 2018 totals. As of last Thursday, 1.4 million votes were cast early, down from the 1.5 million at the same point in the last midterm election.
In Phoenix’s Maricopa County, where half of the state’s voters are located, Republicans were behind their pace of early ballot returns from four years ago going into this past weekend.
Registered Democrats cast the earliest votes (42.8%) in states that allow such voting while Registered Republicans cast 34%. Republicans, though, traditionally cast the largest number of votes on Election Day. The project said 23.2% of early voting came from non-affiliated voters.
President Joe Biden and his granddaughter, Natalie Biden, voted last month during early voting in Delaware. Biden has been barnstorming the country stomping for Democratic candidates in hopes to hold on to the House and Senate. Losing one or both bodies could hamper his final two years.
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I know there are people who can’t get to the polls and there are people who will be away or have some other real reason to vote by mail but I avoid it at all costs.
It is absolutely stupid to vote before Election Day. Millions of people voted without knowing the whole story of what the candidates had to say. They voted blind. I wonder how many in PA voted before finding out that Feterman can’t interact in a conversation and make any sense. Dumb, dumb people vote early.
WITH ALL THE ISSUES we’ve continually seen with mail in voting though, WHY SHOULD we keep using it?
What physically is preventing most folk from getting to the polls?? WITH ADA and other disability laws, iv’e seen PLENTY OF FOLK IN mobility scooters/wheel chairs there.. So that can’t be it.
AND SINCE FOLKS KNOW for months on end, WHEN THE ELECTION IS.. They can’t claim “WE didn’t know”..
Then there are democrat screwups so large that nothing short of a nuclear war could change people’s opinion of voting against them. SOmetimes the early bird does catchup with the worms. Waiting to show up and vote only on elecftion day did not help Trump from getting the election stolen. Its the mail part of voting early that should be abolished.
YEa, just look at tonights elections in CA, NY, WA and OR!
how in the hell can the good people of pennsylvania vote for that idiot devil federman?
the usa is done stick a fork in her.
RIght now i am wondering, “WHAT GOOD People in PA?”
IT seems any smarts there, has left the building.
BUT then i have to remember, PA is one of those states, where 90% OF THE STATE can vote red, but if that last 10%, THE BIG CITIES, all vote blue the STATE went blue essentially…