With Election Day just over a week away and a flurry of presidential campaign stops scheduled, nearly 44 million people have voted early in-person or via mail-in ballots so far.
Ahead of the Nov. 5 contest, the trend of registered Republican voters going to the polls earlier and returning more mail-in ballots appears to be continuing, which has eaten into Democrats’ early voting totals, data show.
For overall early voting, registered Democratic voters make up about 39.8 percent, whereas Republican voters stand at around 36 percent in states that report party affiliation, according to data compiled by the University of Florida’s Election Lab.
And for early in-person voting, Republicans have a 600,000-vote advantage over Democrats. But Democrats have a 4.8 million advantage in terms of mail-in ballot returns so far, data show….