The vast majority—4.4 million—have returned mail-in ballots, and more than 941,000 have voted in-person, according to the University of Florida’s Election Lab.
More than 5 million Americans have cast early ballots as of Tuesday, with just three weeks to go before the 2024 presidential election.
A tracking tool run by the University of Florida’s Election Lab shows that 5.3 million have voted in states that are reporting early election data.
The vast majority—4.4 million—have returned mail-in ballots, and more than 941,000 have voted in-person, according to the tracker, which says 34 states allow early voting.
Breakdown by Party, Age, Race
So far, of nearly 2.4 million voters in states that report party affiliation, around 1.3 million are Democrats, about 741,000 are Republican, and approximately 446,000 are unaffiliated or belong to a third party.
In the states that report gender, nearly 55 percent who have cast ballots early are women, while 44 percent are men. Another 1 percent are classified as “unknown,” the election tracker says.
The majority who have cast early ballots are over the age of 65, at about 59 percent, while around 28 percent are aged 41 to 65, according to the tracking tool. Nine percent are aged 26 to 40, and only 3.4 percent are aged 18 to 25.
The vast majority, or 72 percent, who have voted early are non-Hispanic white. About 11.6 percent are black, 1.9 percent are Hispanic, 2 percent are Asian, and 11.7 percent are other, multiple, or unknown.
Early Voting Starts in Battleground State
Starting Tuesday morning, voters in the swing state of Georgia could officially go to early polling locations. The early voting period will last until Nov. 1, the Friday before Election Day on Nov. 5.
A Georgia judge this week has ruled that county election officials must certify election results by the deadline set in law and cannot exclude any group of votes from certification even if they suspect error or fraud.
Fulton County Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney wrote that “no election superintendent (or member of a board of elections and registration) may refuse to certify or abstain from certifying election results under any circumstance.”
