Battleground State Voters , Are Driving Record Early Turnout.
More than 64 million people have already
cast their votes for the 2020 election,
with an entire week to go before election day.
The number is nearly half of the
entire vote count for 2016.
It is the most votes ever cast in early voting.
A shift in voting rules due to the pandemic and polarized
reactions to President Donald Trump have contributed
to the significant increase in early voter participation.
In battleground states — including Florida,
Arizona, North Carolina, Nevada and Georgia —.
the early ballots make up more than 60 percent
of all the votes that were cast in 2016.
The number is higher in Texas,
where early voters have cast more than
80 percent of all the ballots cast in 2016.
Analysts say that Biden could be the
potential winner in states where mail-in ballots
have been utilized the most.
In states that show fewer mail-in ballots cast,
Trump could be the winner if his prediction of an
in person, "red-wave" proves to be accurate