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                  Record avalanche of early votes transforms the 2020 election



            Early voters line up to cast their ballots at the South Regional Library polling location in Durham, N.C., Thursday, Oct. 15, 2020.
                                                                                                                                            Associated Press
            By  NICHOLAS  RICCARDI  and  AN-    presidential election, even as eight  ing for his site ElectProject.org. Mc-  early  Democratic  advantage  for
            GELIKI KASTANIS                     states are not yet reporting their to-  Donald's analysis shows roughly 10  months, as they've watched Presi-
            Associated Press                    tals and voters still have more than  times as many people have voted  dent  Donald  Trump  rail  against
            Nearly  21  million  Americans  have  two  weeks  to  cast  ballots.  Ameri-  compared with this point in 2016.  mail-in ballots and raise unfounded
            already  cast  ballots  in  the  2020  cans' rush to vote is leading elec-  "We  can  be  certain  this  will  be  a  worries  about  fraud.  Polling,  and
            election,  a  record-shattering  ava-  tion experts to predict that a record  high-turnout  election,"  McDonald  now early voting, suggest the rhet-
            lanche  of  early  votes  driven  both  150 million votes may be cast and  said.                            oric has turned his party's rank and
            by  Democratic  enthusiasm  and  a  turnout rates could be higher than  So  far  the  turnout  has  been  lop-  file away from a method of voting
            pandemic  that  has  transformed  in  any  presidential  election  since  sided,  with  Democrats  outvoting  that, traditionally, they dominated
            the way the nation votes.           1908.                               Republicans  by  a  2-1  ratio  in  the  in the weeks before Election Day.
            The  20.8  million  ballots  submitted  "It's  crazy,"  said  Michael  McDon-  42 states included in The Associat-
            as  of  Friday  afternoon  represents  ald, a University of Florida political  ed Press count. Republicans have             Continued on Page 2
            15% of all the votes cast in the 2016  scientist who has long tracked vot-  been  bracing  themselves  for  this
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