Do you think the majority of people that are going to vote have already voted?

No. I expect tons of people at the polling places on November 3.

I voted last week, but millions haven’t.

In my state there is a bit o a song and dance to vote by mail, as it is the first year that so many doing it. I have talked to a lot of people that are going to wait and vote in person on November 3.

No, I know a lot of people that want to “go to the polls”.

Some states have made it very difficult to vote early if you are in a county that leans blue. Those places will see a lot of in person voters on election day.

No. Of course not.

Votes are supposed to have equal weight.

The rules say that everyone has until the end of election day to vote.

It was already a problem with TV coverage of elections that *&#@% for-profit “journalists” would try to predict and broadcast their analysis of who was winning based on exit polls, starting on the East Coast due to time zone differences. This had effects on voters in the rest of the country. i.e. election interference!

Grow some patience!

No, like most answers, many in red states will continue to vote in person.

@Zaku In 1980, The stock exchanges closed for the election. Last time they did that, now we get a floating holiday instead.

One of my coworkers invited everyone to come over and have dinner while we watched the election results. The invitation was for the party to start at 7 p.m. Pacific Time.

A bunch of us showed up at 7, just as the polls were closing in California, only to learn the networks had called the whole thing for Reagan at 6:45.

The country has for the most part been going into the shitter ever since.

I read in a blog that 28 million ballots have been cast. In 2016, there were 130 million ballots cast. There are a lot of people left to vote.

The blog is electoral-vote.com. I’m on mobile and cannot link it.

Here’s a link Here’s a link to the blog post @Hawaii_Jake refers to. Now it’s up to 29M!

Also – “Nationally, voters have cast 20.9% of the total votes counted in the 2016 general election.”

Very eye opening. Thanks!

No.

Early voting started today in Florida.

My vote was counted a few days ago, I mailed mine in two weeks ago. Many of my friends with mail-in ballots are dropping the ballot off in person, which started today with early voting.

A good portion of my Republican acquaintances and friends are voting in person.

I think over 50% of the vote will be counted before Election Day though in most states. That’s just my guess. I haven’t heard anything with how much of the vote is in by state. I see the link HJ gave has some info.

My vote was counted a few days ago

I did not know they counted ballots before election day. A little googling says each state has its own rules and Florida starts counting on October 12. That’s good.

Unfortunately, the other key states (MI, PA, WI) can’t count before election day. That’s a recipe for meddling. I am certain Republicans are going to try excluding those ballots if Trump is ahead when in-person votes are tallied.

@Call_Me_Jay When I looked up Florida rules for counting mail-in a few months ago, the rule was they waited until election Day, and in fact my vote in August did not show counted until the day after Election Day, even though I had walked it into the early voting location a week before, and it showed received a day after that.

I noticed about a month ago, that the rule was changed to counting 22 days before the election. I’m very glad they changed it. Mostly, I am glad so the poll workers don’t have horrible pressure on them to count everything in one day. It also gives a sense of assuredness to the voter that their vote is counted and doesn’t need to worry about their ballot being set aside for a signature problem or something else. Signature problems are allowed to be cleared up after the fact, but there are deadlines.

I don’t know if all states you can look up your vote was counted? My parents received an email in their state, MD that their ballot was received. In FL we see online the ballot was Requested, Sent, Received, and Counted. Each category gets highlighted when it occurs.

I give credit to whoever changed the rules in Florida. It might just be a temporary covid change, I don’t know. I hope they keep it this way ongoing. No reason not to count a vote once it is cast.

I think Florida has other weird rules like an early vote counts even if the person dies before Election Day. Once the vote is cast it counts, including a postmark that signifies the person was alive the day they voted. It makes sense to me, but I think some states have laws not to count those votes. How does that work?

No but in North Carolina has 820,000 early voters from Thursday through Saturday. That plus the 500,000 received mail-in votes means 20% of the registered voters have voted..

We “early voted” today (Monday) and we were done in 40 minutes, my wife talked to one of the Poll Monitors that voted on Saturday, he was in line for 5 hours !!

’‘Seventeen states prohibit counting ballots cast by someone who subsequently died before the election, but 10 states specifically allow it. The law is silent in the rest of the country, according to research by the National Conference of State Legislatures.’

3 family members have voted, I haven’t yet. Will be Nov 3.

I think most will vote in person.

They just opened my county up for voting today. Why don’t you vote early @SergeantQueen, and avoid the crowds and lines?

I looked for a website that had a running tally. Never found one.

@SergeantQueen I know there is a pandemic. But it’s my first presidential election and I kind of want to do it in person.

I looked for a website that had a running tally.

If you mean tally of which candidate is getting votes, I believe they can’t release the info until election day.

I voted in person.

As far as I know they cannot release any information about votes/results before Election Day. Possibly, they can say stats on whether registered Democrats or Republicans have voted, because I hear people saying more Democrats are voting early, but I don’t know if that is polling or or actual hard statistics.

@JLeslie Two to one for Democrats to Republicans in my area. 56% Dem – – 26% GOP – – 17% unaffiliated.

@Tropical_Willie Interesting. What state?

Do you think unaffiliated mostly vote Republican? Considering more Biden voters are likely to vote early, maybe your unaffiliated are voting in big numbers for Biden.

The next two weeks many many Republicans will be voting.

^Hopefully for Biden.

@chyna I think in Florida we generally feel more unaffiliated vote for Republicans, but I don’t know if that is across all states, and I’m not even sure if it’s true here. I guess I could look at past election results and figure it out.

@JLeslie & @chyna it is North Carolina; which is “MUST WIN” state for Trump. And it is looking like Trump might be on the short side of votes for a win.
He has hurt many of the small farmers (tariffs and trade bans), they are viewed as GOP rather than Dem’s

@Tropical_Willie One of my brothers lives in Raleigh and he’s voting for Biden!

When I lived in Raleigh there were a lot of Democrats around me. You have the universities and medical, Duke pulls people from around the country. You have tech companies, that area is known as the “Southern” Silicon Valley. But, just outside of research triangle it’s very red, except for Blacks people. Even in the triangle there were still a lot of Republicans. NC was the state I most felt a weird division between the races. When I go to Pinehurst, the country club still has Black waiters. They probably make good money, but it’s odd feeling. It’s been several years since I’ve been there.

The TV and Cable reviews on Election night could get weird and interesting.