OVER 97 MILLION AMERICANS CAST EARLY VOTES : WEBSITE

3 NOV 2020

WASHINGTON: More than 97 million Americans have cast ballots in the United States ahead of Election Day, reported Xinhua news agency.

The total early votes stand at 97,867,186 as of 06:30 p.m. Eastern Time (2330 GMT) on Monday, according to nonpartisan website US Elections Project – run by a professor with the University of Florida, Michael McDonald, who tracks county-level data.

The early votes include more than 35 million in-person votes, as well as 62 million returned mail-in ballots, and the figure represents some 71 per cent of the total votes counted in the 2016 election.

In the 20 states that report the party registration of early voters, the Elections Project found that 45.2 per cent of those who have voted early are registered Democrats, 30.5 per cent are Republicans, and 23.6 percent list no party affiliation.

It is believed that 2020's total voter turnout could be the highest in a century. - Bernama