Early voting turnout passes 2M in NY: election officials
At least 2.2 million people have cast in-person ballots in New York state ahead of Election Day, election officials announced Sunday, the state’s ninth and final day of early voting.
New Yorkers reported wait times of a half-hour or less at many polling places and posted selfies of early voting stickers to social media. The New York City Board of Elections shared a photograph of a 100-year-old voter casting a ballot and wearing a mask.
On top of the early voting numbers, more than a million voters have already returned absentee ballots, elections officials said, bringing the total number of votes cast prior to Sunday’s tally at nearly 3.3 million. That’s nearly 42 percent of the total vote in the 2016 presidential election.