Over 31 million people have already cast their ballots since early voting began nationwide ahead of next month’s election.
According to the University of Florida Election Lab’s early voter tracker, 32,678,726 people have cast an early vote so far, with more than 14.8 million people voting in person, while 17.8 million people have returned an mail-in ballot, as of 8:21 a.m. ET Friday. More than 64 million mail-in ballot’s have been requested, according to the tracker.
Among those voters, almost 9 million have come from the 7 swing states, which are seeing a surge in early Republican voters.
Last week, officials reported record-breaking early voting turnout in key swing states, including Georgia and North Carolina. In Georgia, approximately 2.3 million ballots have already been cast, with 328,000 cast on the first day, more than doubling the previous record of 136,000 set in 2020, when President Joe Biden narrowly won the state. North Carolina also set a new early voting record, with over 353,000 votes on the first day alone. As of Friday, more than 2.2 million ballots had been cast in the state, according to tracking data.
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The Secretary of State’s Office said 1 out of every 3 active voters have cast their ballot as of Saturday.
ATLANTA — Georgia voters are showing up in big numbers across the state as we head into the last week of early voting.
As of Saturday night, Georgia’s Secretary of State’s Office reported 2,791,185 votes have been cast between absentee voting and in-person early voting.