With 8 days until voting starts, 'election season' kicks off sooner than you think
Election Day is approaching fast; however, most Americans will have already cast their ballots before Nov. 5
By Kellianne Jones , Rémy Numa , Timothy H.J. Nerozzi , Danielle Wallace Fox News
Published August 7, 2024 10:44am EDT | Updated August 29, 2024 8:11am EDTThere are 68 days until Election Day on Tuesday, Nov. 5.
But if Americans vote like they did in the last two election cycles, most of them will have already cast a ballot before the big day.
Early voting starts as soon as Sept. 6 for eligible voters, with seven battleground states sending out ballots to at least some voters the same month.
It makes the next few months less a countdown to Election Day, and more the beginning of "election season."
States have long allowed at least some Americans to vote early, like members of the military or people with illnesses.
In some states, almost every voter casts a ballot by mail.
Many states expanded eligibility in 2020, when the COVID-19 pandemic made it riskier to vote in-person.
That year, the Fox News Voter Analysis found that 71% of voters cast their ballots before Election Day, with 30% voting early in-person and 41% voting by mail.
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