Early voting continues at a record pace with more than 11 million votes cast; four years ago, just 1.4 million voters were registered at the same time before the election, according to the U.S. Elections Project.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
For University of Florida professor and project manager Michael McDonald, the pace of voting is remarkable with five states already reaching 20% or more than their vote totals over 2016 ballots - Minnesota, South Dakota, Vermont, Virginia and Wisconsin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The historic increase in early voting is due to a greater availability of choices, as well as increased voter demand, coupled with the fact that some states that have received mail-in ballots are also beginning in-person early voting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
For example, McDonald says, in North Carolina, in-person early voting begins Thursday, Oct. 15. The state has a form of in-person early voting called \"One Stop\" voting, which is available during the in-person early voting period and will no longer be available on Election Day, Nov. 3.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In the balloting four years ago, 100,368 eligible people registered and voted this way, many of them first-time voters and younger, so there is still plenty of evidence that it will be a high turnout election.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
For example, 2018 had the highest turnout rate for a midterm election since 1914 and turnout has been high in other special elections and statewide elections since Trump took office.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Pollsters are also recording unusually high levels of interest and self-reported voting intentions, and there is record small donor activity. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
For example, University of Florida professor Jamie Harrison, D-South Carolina, recently announced a record fundraising quarter for U.S. Senate races.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
And while he questions whether early voting and overall turnout will decline as Election Day approaches and we see a typical turnout election, he still expects to see early voting pick up as it normally does as Election Day approaches. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Some of this is due to the unknown number of people who will vote early as some will be from voters who have not yet returned their mail-in ballots, particularly younger voters.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Pamela Cruz. Pen\u00ednsula 360 Press. La votaci\u00f3n anticipada contin\u00faa a un ritmo r\u00e9cord con m\u00e1s de 11 millones de votos; mientras que, hace cuatro a\u00f1os, a igual fecha antes de las elecciones, apenas se hab\u00edan registrado 1.4 millones de votantes, inform\u00f3 el Proyecto Elecciones de Estados Unidos. Para el profesor de la Universidad de Florida […]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":1970,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,14,8,2,78],"tags":[273,116,125,117],"class_list":{"0":"post-1969","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-politics","8":"category-cover","9":"category-usworld","10":"category-peninsula","11":"category-san-francisco","12":"tag-ccj","13":"tag-donald-trump","14":"tag-joe-biden","15":"tag-voto-2020"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1969","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1969"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1969\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1971,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1969\/revisions\/1971"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}