This Article is From Oct 23, 2020

More Than 50 Million Vote Early In US Presidential Election: Report

US Voters are smashing records for casting ballots ahead of Election Day on November 3 in order to avoid crowded polling centers and long lines out of fear of catching the coronavirus.

More Than 50 Million Vote Early In US Presidential Election: Report

More than 35 million people have voted by mail and more than 15 million in person.

Washington:

More than 50 million Americans have voted early in the White House race pitting US President Donald Trump against Democrat Joe Biden, a group monitoring balloting said Friday.

Voters are smashing records for casting ballots ahead of Election Day on November 3 in order to avoid crowded polling centers and long lines out of fear of catching the coronavirus.

The tally by the US Elections Project, run by the University of Florida, said more than 35 million people have now voted by mail and more than 15 million in person by leaving their ballots in designated drop boxes.

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