Early and absentee vote: How many Americans have already voted in the presidential election?
By the time Election Day arrives on Tuesday, millions of voters will have already made their choices, either through early in-person voting or by mailing in their ballots.
Every state allows some way to cast a ballot before Election Day, and Alabama kicked things off in 2024 on 11 September as it began distributing mail-in ballots.
As of 31 October, voters nationwide have returned a total of 64,550,126 advance ballots in the 2024 general election.
The state of Georgia reported a record turnout on the first day of early voting for the US presidential election on 15 October, when early voting started.
Almost two-thirds of voters cast an early ballot in 2020, a pandemic-driven spike in America’s decades-long shift to favour voting in advance of Election Day.
Nearly all states offer some version of in-person voting, though the rules and dates vary considerably. Minnesota, South Dakota and Virginia kicked off early in-person voting on 20 September.
