More than 75 million Americans cast early votes before U.S. presidential election

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Prior to the U.S. presidential election taking place in just a few days,…early voting is skyrocketing,… despite the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
Recent polls show that this year,… more than 75 million Americans have already cast votes nationwide.
This record-breaking number represents more than half of the total votes cast in the 2016 Presidential election.
Choi Min-jung has the details.
With less than a week to go until the 2020 U.S. presidential election, more than 75 million Americans have cast early votes.
According to the tally from the U.S. Elections Project on Wednesday, early votes this year have already surpassed half the total votes cast in the entire 2016 presidential election.
Of the early votes, more than 25 million Americans have marked their ballot papers in person, while nearly 50 million voted by mail.
In addition, according to a recent survey conducted by CNN, Edison Research and Catalist, some 35-percent of registered voters have already cast early ballots as of Wednesday afternoon.
Currently,.. the top three states with the highest percentage for early voting are Montana, Washington state, and Colorado,… with more than 50-percent of registered voters casting ballots in all three states.
So far, the early votes show that registered Democrats have outpaced Republicans in mail-in votes.
However, it is too early to come to any conclusions as President Trump is seeing a slight uptick in his recent polls.
The battle in Florida, a key swing state, is getting tighter,… as Wednesday's poll average provided by RealClearPolitics showed a tie between the two contestants, with both at 48-percent.
This tie comes a day after Trump, for the first time, had taken a slight lead by 0-point-4 points.
According to the CNN Poll of Polls, Joe Biden is in the lead at 52-percent, while Trump is trailing at 42-percent as of Wednesday.
Choi Min-jung, Arirang news.

2020-10-29, 10:00 (KST)

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