It's 6.3 million according to this professor: https://electproject.github.io/Early-Vote-2020G/index.html Don't wait folks. Who knows what the weather will be like or what skullduggery awaits us as we get closer to election day. Bank those votes as early as possible. |
75,000 versus 5,600,000
Wow. When the people turn out, Dems win. |
Cue 'Jaws' theme. Karma is coming for you, Trump. Duh-Duh... Duh-Duh... |
Does anyone know how many of the states in which early votes are being cast are places where these are votes that will be counted on election day? I'm wondering how many are mail-in ballots (as in PA, which doesn't have true early voting) vs "in-person" votes. |
thats the important question. Are these early votes, or are they absentee votes? Ideally, these votes can be counted before election day, especially in the battleground states. |
The Georgia ones are absentee since early in person voting hasn't started yet. |
Any stats for Maryland are also absentee since early in-person voting hasn’t started yet. |
Will Virginia count the early votes by election day? I'm planning to vote in-person next week when the satellite location near me opens, but would like to make sure that my vote is part of the numbers being counted on Nov 3. If the counts on Nov 3 show a tight race or Trump leading, then the rest of votes come in for Biden, there's going to be all hell breaking loose in the courts. |
you can’t count them before the polls close on Election Day. However, you can feed them into the machines. Then, after polls close, you officially report the tally- just like the in person machines. This is for Virginia and Fairfax. Since voting is controlled locally, each state will have different rules. |
This is how Minnesota does it, too, if I’m understanding it correctly. My ballot has been accepted. |
True, but I think the ones starting on 10/26 will be counted immediately. But besides wanting to contribute to a massive popular vote landslide, our vote here in Maryland doesnt matter much, since the state will clearly go blue. The down ballot county initiative votes matter much more to our day to day lives. |
Yes, thank you for clarifying. That's what I meant. I believe some states won't even put them into the machine until 11/3. tho |