Title: Early voter turnout 2020: How many people have voted in person and by mail? - Vox
Headings: 9 questions about 2020’s record-breaking early vote, answered
9 questions about 2020’s record-breaking early vote, answered
How many people have already voted? And what does that tell us about the election?
1) What did early voting turnout look like in 2020?
2) How many people voted by mail versus in person?
3) Who, exactly, voted early?
4) What kinds of problems did we see with early voting?
5) What kind of problems did we see with voting by mail?
6) What do the early voting numbers mean for overall 2020 turnout?
7) What do the early voting numbers mean for the outcome of the election?
8) Ugh, okay, fine. But what does all this early voting mean for how soon we’ll know the results of the election? Might that at least come in early?
9) So is early voting, in all its forms, going to be a permanent thing now?

Content: “We’re seeing a very energized, interested electorate, and we’re seeing a public, I think, that is responding to a message that you need to cast that ballot early this year,” Paul Gronke, a professor of political science at Reed College who runs the Early Voting Information Center, said. Enthusiasm among both Democratic and Republican voters is high. President Donald Trump is the reason: His supporters are extremely motivated to reelect their guy, and the other side is extremely motivated to vote him out. A voter casts a ballot in Washington, DC, on October 27. Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call via Getty Images
Voters also absorbed the “vote early” directive, likely motivated by safety concerns about voting during the coronavirus pandemic, and by rhetoric around the integrity of the election system, from the Trumpian attacks on mail-in voting to Democratic concerns about a dysfunctional US Postal Service. But rather than deterring people from voting, it may have driven them to the polls. “ People are responding — thankfully, not by not casting a ballot, but by casting an early ballot,” Gronke added. Beyond turnout, the early vote data offers only partial clues about the electorate in 2020. It hints at who’s voting, how, and where they are on the electoral map.