The Covid-19 epidemic requires, the early voting is breaking records this year, with many voters preferring to slip their ballot in advance in the ballot box to avoid the crowd on polling day. More than 50 million people have already voted for the US presidential election that pits Joe Biden against Donald Trump, according to the United States Elections Project site, Friday, October 23.
According to this count compiled by Michael McDonald, researcher at the University of Florida, more than 35 million people have already voted by mail, and more than 15 million in person. This is already more than the number of early votes recorded in 2016 (more than 47 million).
By comparison, this represents 36.5% of the total ballots cast for the 2016 presidential election (both early and on polling day). Four years ago, the total number of voters who voted was 138 million.
In-person voting opens in New York
Advance voting obeys different rules in different states. One of the most populous of them – and therefore the most endowed with large voters -, the State of New York, will open the possibility of voting in person from Saturday, which will further increase the number of anticipated ballots. deposited.
Democrats have called for advance voting as a precautionary measure, but voter infatuation has occasionally resulted in long lines in states where it started.
The Trump camp denounces, without supporting evidence, an approach likely to “Fake” the results and promises that his voters will travel, them, very widely on November 3 to lie to the polls giving him beaten.
