PNN – American media announced that more than 62 million Americans have cast their early votes for the November 5, 2024 presidential election.
According to the report of Pakistan News Network, according to the data of the University of Florida Election Center, 62.7 million people have participated in early voting in the American elections.
According to CBS News, five days before the US presidential election, more than 33 million Americans have cast early votes in person and more than 29.5 million have cast early votes by mail.
More than 872,000 early votes have been cast in Nevada, one of the states in the race between Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump, which could play an important role in the election.
According to American media reports, this figure has broken the record of early voting in America five days before the Election Day.
According to the US election laws, voters in some states can cast their ballots in person or by mail earlier than Election Day.
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According to reports, the early votes in the elections of the previous periods were in favor of the Democratic Party, and now Kamala Harris is the candidate of this party to win the seat of the White House. In the 2020 US presidential election, these votes also played a role in the victory of the current US president, Joe Biden.
The Republican Party and former President Donald Trump’s special person and the party’s candidate in the upcoming elections are against early voting by mail, claiming that this method increases the possibility of fraud.
The US presidential election will be held on Tuesday, November 5 of this year, and the polls indicate a tight competition between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump, the two candidates of the Democratic and Republican parties, especially in the battleground and swing states.
A presidential candidate in the United States becomes president not by winning a majority of the popular vote, but through a system called the Electoral College, which allocates electoral votes to the 50 states and the District of Columbia, based largely on their population, and to the White House.
The seven key states for electing the next president of the United States of America are: Arizona, Wisconsin, North Carolina, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada and Pennsylvania.
538 Electoral College votes are divided between the 50 states and the District of Columbia. Each state gets at least three votes depending on the number of congressional representatives it has. Congressional seats are allocated to each state based on their population. Therefore, the smallest states have three Electoral College votes (they have two senators and one congressman). Washington DC also gets three votes.
The most populous states receive more electoral votes: California gets 54 electoral votes (with two senators and 52 congressional districts), Texas 40, Florida 30, New York 28, etc. In almost all states, the winning candidate gets all the electoral votes. Any candidate who gets 270 or more electoral votes becomes president.
The Electoral College will meet on December 17 to officially cast their ballots and send the results to Congress. The candidate who gets 270 electoral votes or more becomes the president.
The votes will be officially tallied by Congress on January 6, and the new president will be sworn in on January 20.