US election 2020: How many Americans have voted early so far?

Early voting is exactly what it sounds like - it's where people are allowed to vote before the scheduled election day.

This can be either in-person at early voting stations, or absentee - that is, by post. In-person early voting is common
in Finland and Canada, while Switzerland, Germany and the UK accept postal votes.

In the US, this means people are able to cast their ballots before 3 November - either by post or in-person.

Early voting has steadily increased with each election year. The number of people who voted early in the 2016
presidential election was more than five times the number who voted early 24 years earlier, in 1992.

And with the Covid-19 pandemic affecting everything this year, and some form of early voting under way in all
50 states, we're already seeing record numbers of people casting their ballots ahead of time.

Donald Trump is among those who has voted early, casting his vote in his home state of Florida.

But the process hasn't been universally popular.

So who is voting early, and why? And what do some people have against it? Here's what you need to know.

How many people have voted early so far this year?
According to the US Elections Project, as of 2 November more than 97 million Americans had voted early - either
by post or in person. This is already more than the total number of early votes cast in the 2016 election.

This site is run by Michael McDonald, a professor at the University of Florida who specialises in early voting, and
tracks the number of votes cast by state and overall.

By his count, the state with the highest number of early voters so far is California, where more than 11 million
people have already voted.

Next is Texas, where the 9.7 million total has surpassed the total turnout for the state in 2016.

Who is voting early?
As well as knowing where this year's early voters live, we are also now getting a sense of who these voters are.

First of all, we know that a lot of early voters this year are young.

According to the Tufts University Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement (Circle),
more than five million young people - classified as those aged between 18 and 29 - had cast early votes by
26 October.

About three million of those young votes were cast in 14 battleground states, Circle adds.

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