▲ People waiting to vote in advance


The number of pre-voting in the United States ahead of the presidential election on the 3rd of next month exceeds 40 million.



According to an election forecasting site built by Professor Michael McDonald's University of Florida, as of 1:59 pm on the 21st, 41.3 million people have completed pre-voting, including mail-by-mail and pre-field voting.



The number of participants of mail voting and pre-voting on-site was 29.6 million and 11.5 million, respectively.



In the case of mail-by-mail voting, 47 of the 50 US states that can use data are aggregated. This year, the number of vote-by-mail applicants reached 84.5 million.



So far, the number of pre-voting participants amounted to 87.5% of 47.1 million people during the 2016 presidential election.



With 13 days left until the voting day, it is expected that there will be much more pre-voting than four years ago.



To date, the number of pre-voting is 29.6% based on the total of 138.8 million voters in 2016.



In Texas, pre-voting accounted for 59.2% of all voters in 2016, Georgia (45.9%), Florida (38.4%), North Carolina (45.2%), New Mexico (47.8%), Montana (47.1%), and New Jersey (50.4%). %) and Vermont (51.1%) also showed high participation rates.



It is also characteristic that the proportion of Democratic Party supporters among the pre-voting participants is far higher.



An analysis of 19 states that released pre-voting voters' party support information found that 19.12 million voted voters in all of these states.



Of these, the Democratic Party supported 52.0%, or 9.94 million, more than half of the total, and the Republican Party supported 26.0% (4.98 million), which was half the level of the Democratic Party.



21.3% (4,800,000 people) of shamans and 0.6% (110,000 people) of minority parties were supported.



By type of vote, the proportion of supporters of the Democratic Party was 54.1%, more than twice that of the Republican Party (23.8%).



On the other hand, in advance on-site voting, the proportion of supporters of the Democratic Party and the Republican Party was 41.3% and 37.6%, respectively, and the gap was small compared to the mail voting.



In various opinion polls, Democratic supporters responded that they would participate in pre-voting due to concerns about Corona 19, far higher than Republicans.



On the other hand, there were many responses from the supporters of the Republican Party that they would vote on the day of the election, but it is interpreted that President Trump's claim that ``mail ballot = fraudulent ballot'' had an effect.



The Democratic Party interpreted it as a sign that the supporters are actively voting this time compared to the 2016 presidential election, saying that the overwhelming advantage of the pre-voting was showing the supporters' enthusiasm for voting participation.



On the other hand, the voting fever can affect not only the Democrats, but also the Republicans, and in fact, some analyzes say that the proportion of Republican supporters who participated in pre-voting is also high in highly competitive regions such as Texas and Michigan.



CNN said, "It is unknown if the Democrats' apparent early advantage will be offset by a wave of Republican supporters on Election Day."



The Washington Post said, "The Democrats hope that the pre-voting energy will lead to a decisive victory in the presidential election," said the Washington Post.



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