US polls: 17 million votes cast so far

Some early voting has commenced in all seven swing states in the 2024 Presidential election in the United States. 

By Monday, 17 million Americans had already cast a vote and there are initial indications that Republicans are showing up to the polls or returning absentee ballots with more gusto than in recent years.

In 2020, Donald Trump thoroughly demonized every method of voting that didn’t occur in person on Election Day, and he repeatedly discouraged his supporters from taking advantage of expanded access to mail-in and absentee voting, saying that those methods would cause “chaos and confusion.”

Not all states release early voting data broken down by partisanship, limiting the snapshot but available data and experts who closely follow ballot returns see an uptick for Republicans in a few key places. 

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As of Monday evening, about 39.5 per cent of the roughly 245,000 ballots submitted in Nevada came from Republicans, and 36.3 per cent came from Democrats.