PNN – According to published data, more than 70 million people in the United States have cast their votes in the ballot boxes until today, a day before the presidential election on November 5, 2024.
According to the report of Pakistan News Network, according to the data of 47 states and the District of Columbia collected by CNN, Edison Research and Catalyst, about 71.5 million Americans have voted.
Meanwhile, ABC News has reported that 37 million 458 thousand 617 votes were cast in person and 32 million 594 thousand 669 votes were cast by mail.
This figure of early participation in the US election is about 45% of the approximately 158 million votes cast for the 2020 presidential election. That year, amid the coronavirus pandemic, about 70 percent of ballots were cast before Election Day, while in 2022, the number of voters who voted early and on Election Day was roughly equal.
Currently, 14 US states have more than 50% of their total votes past 2020, led by Georgia, where early voting accounted for 80% of 2020 votes.
According to US election laws, voters in some states can cast their ballots in person or by mail earlier than Election Day.
According to the reports, 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.
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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 candidate for the presidency in the United States, 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.
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. Thus, 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.