More than 1.9M New Jerseyans have voted in advance of Election Day

More than 1.9 million people have already cast their ballots for Tuesday’s general election using early in-person voting and mail-in ballots, with more Democrats taking advantage of both voting options.

Almost 1.2 million voters cast ballots in person during the nine-day early voting period that ended Sunday, according to Ryan Dubicki, an elections researcher for the Associated Press. That’s the most ever since the state started the practice in 2021, an uptick that wasn’t unexpected because voter turnout tends to be higher during presidential elections.

Voter mobilization efforts have been especially intense lately, with Vice President Kamala Harris, a Democrat, and former President Donald Trump, a Republican, tied in polls.

Another 763,000 voters have voted in New Jersey so far by mail, Dubicki found. That’s not a record, though, because most Garden State voters voted by mail in the 2020 election, when the state remained in the grip of the deadly coronavirus epidemic.




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