High turnout in early voting across US
More than a million Americans have already voted in the presidential election across the United States, and turnout for early voting is higher than usual, the Washington Post reported yesterday.
Voters are casting tens of thousands of ballots a day in the 30 states that allow early voting or absentee voting without an excuse, the daily said.
More than 1.3 million people had voted in eight swing states -- states where the race was considered too close to call -- by late Friday, it said.
For all latest news, follow The Daily Star's Google News channel. Election officials said they were seeing record early-vote turnout.
Officials in eight counties in Florida, scene of the ballot recount fiasco in the 2000 US election, said greater numbers of Democrats were voting early than Republicans.
In Las Vegas, Nevada, 86,000 people have already cast ballots -- an increase of 30 percent over early voting numbers at this time four years ago -- and 20,000 absentee ballots have been mailed in.
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