In-Person Voting Kicks Off in Select US States, Six Weeks Before Election Day

September 21 :
In a recent report, Reuters reported that : In a presidential race that Republican and Democratic leaders have hailed as the most consequential in centuries, Americans started voting in person for the first time on Friday. The election is six weeks away. Trump has stated that he must win in order to rescue the nation from Democratic rule, while Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris and other party officials have characterized Republican nominee Donald Trump as a danger to democracy. The stakes couldn't be higher.

Voting in person begins the six-week countdown to Election Day on November 5. This marks the beginning of the end for the divisive campaign that has lasted for the last two months, during which time Harris has succeeded Joe Biden as the Democratic nominee and Trump has narrowly escaped an assassination attempt in Pennsylvania and what appears to have been a second one at his Florida golf club on Sunday.

You can vote early in person in most states. Several additional states will hold in-person voting by mid-October, following Virginia, Minnesota, and South Dakota as the first. Since weather and other circumstances might effect turnout on Nov. 5 Election Day, the Republican National Committee has embraced early voting this year as a crucial opportunity to rack up votes in advance, despite Trump's repeated skepticism about the idea.

During the last several years, Democrats have raked in millions of votes by taking advantage of early voting possibilities. The U.S. Elections Project at the University of Florida found that in 2018, Republicans received 35.1% of the early votes and Democrats received 41% in the 24 states that report partisan data.

This disparity became even more pronounced in 2022, when Republicans received 33.8 percent of early ballots and Democrats 42.5 percent.