WASHINGTON (Pakistan Point News / Sputnik - 20th October, 2020) More than 30 million Americans have already voted in this year's presidential race, about fives time the number of ballots cast at a comparable point in 2016, the US Elections Project said citing official state data.
"Voters have cast a total of 30,242,866 ballots in the reporting states," the website said on Monday.
The site administrator, University of Florida professor Michael McDonald, said at a comparable point in 2016 about 5.9 million votes had been cast.
The report said the current turnout is 21.7 percent of the total votes counted in the 2016 US election, which was nearly 139 million.
In a post on October 4, the professor said he estimates that some 150 million people could vote in the 2020 general election, which would be a record tally and highest turnout rate since 1908.
McDonald captures official data directly from election systems of more than 30 US states that allow for early voting.
