Political analyst John Couvillon reported that the number of early voters and mail-in ballot applications for the current presidential election are down significantly compared to this point in the 2020 election cycle.
Henry Olsen, a senior fellow at the Center for Ethics and Public Policy, said early voting so far has “fallen far short of what some people estimate.” I wrote for new york post Data from Republican Strategists was released on Friday.
Couvillon said 4.2 million Americans had already voted as of Thursday, a 45% decrease from the same period when President Joe Biden faced off against former President Donald Trump. .
In Virginia, for example, only 459,000 early voters cast their ballots in person, a decrease of about 4% compared to 2020.
Requests for mail-in ballots are also down significantly, with a 58% drop from 2020 in states that don't automatically mail ballots to voters, according to data from Couvillon.
The dramatic decline was even more pronounced in battleground states Georgia and North Carolina, where 84% and 75% fewer voters requested mail-in ballots, respectively, than before.
It appears that more and more people are waiting until voting day.
“Voters here simply don't want to vote by mail when in-person early voting is widely available,” Olsen wrote.
The statistics in battleground states are especially important, even considering the wave of mail-in voting during the coronavirus pandemic.
It's difficult to determine what this data means, but the analyst said it's “impossible to turn these into good news for Harris.”
“I can tell you what this means for both candidates. There's still plenty of time to influence the race with campaign stops, messaging, tactics, etc.,” Olsen added.
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