Nearly 5.3 million have voted in Florida during early surge

Democrats were building a lead in North Carolina and Nevada states, while Republicans maintained an edge in Florida and OH, according to a CNN analysis.

But starting in the late 1970s, some states began the move to “convenience voting”, by which anyone who wanted to vote early could. All states now provide for direct election of electors by popular vote, and most states now allow for early voting, either in person or by mail.

As of 4 p.m. Thursday, Republicans accounted for 55.7 percent of all mail-in voters and 49.2 percent of early voters; Democrats comprised 35.8 percent of mail-in voters and 42.9 percent of early voters; and independents accounted for 8.3 percent of the mail-ins and 7.7 percent of early voters.

This was the first year that MA implemented early voting. Almost 1 million voters registered with no party affiliation have also voted.

“Absentee ballots are a little modest this year”, said Daniel Baxter, director of elections for the city, noting that 54,460 have been issued and 38,796 have been returned.

The voting between Republicans and Democrats is just about even with Republicans having an edge of less than 2,000 votes. But if a voter requests an absentee ballot they can still vote on Election Day, as long as the absentee ballot hasn’t been processed by a local election clerk.

If any of this sounds familiar, it’s because Republicans tried something like this in Louisiana 30 years ago in a U.S. Senate race between then-U.S. Rep. John Breaux, a Democrat, and his Republican House colleague, Rep. Henson Moore. Perhaps sensing an opening, the Clinton campaign decided this week to pump an additional $1 million into Arizona for TV ads.

If you don’t make it to the polls by Friday evening, you will have to wait until Election Day to cast your ballot.

In swing-state Nevada, where half the total ballots have been cast, Democrats lead with 42 percent to 37 percent. More and more, election officials saw rules requiring ballot application, reasons for voting and notarization as a nuisance. “I just want to remind people it is illegal to take pictures of ballots while in the voting booth”, she said.

Colorado is a state where the election is nearly entirely conducted by mail. But the surge in early voting may suggest that Americans continue to value their role in the electoral process, particularly when they perceive that the stakes are high, political analysts say. That is a significant flip. A reported 52,414 people have voted since October 24, 2016. Maybe that’s why President Barack Obama rallied voters Thursday in Miami and Jacksonville, hoping to turn things around. In North Carolina, 300,000 more women than men have voted, out of 2.3 million votes cast so far.

What does this mean? Those examples, Frisby noted, show that when people vote before they are focused on a race, they probably are not making “the most educated” choice possible.

In this election in particular, he says, Democrats and Republicans alike tend to see a win for the other side as an existential threat. If there was a way to vote for the candidate you most closely identify with, while still preventing the candidate you hate from winning office? “However, we can’t print any results until after the polls close at 8 p.m. on Election Day”, he said.

“We’re ahead in terms of early voting than we were in 2012”. “We are committed to ensuring citizens have every opportunity to vote and we have 15 secure, 24/7 ballot drop-off boxes throughout the county”.

“There was a recent report that came out that examined the vote in the entire United States in the past 10 years”, she said. Still, his campaign has been buoyed by tightening polls there and in other key battlegrounds, as well as by signs that African-American turnout for Mrs Clinton may be lagging. As more polling places open this week – especially in counties with a large black electorate – their turnout might tick up. It proved a crucial win when a 65-65 tie was broken by SC, which, as the last state to vote, delivered the decisive eight electoral votes to Jefferson. One of them was Gladys Coego.

The good news is that there are multiple efforts to mitigate these problems.

Still, the Civil War was a special case for early voting en masse.