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: Just over one-quarter of these new voters are under 30, suggesting these aren’t just people who are newly of voting age. Those new voters, he said, are also more likely to be Democrats and more likely to be Asian or Hispanic than the electorate at large. This group also includes seniors over 65, who may have sat out in 2016. Some of these voters returned in the 2018 midterms, part of the reason for the “blue wave” back then, Bonier said, but they’re returning again in 2020. Younger voters also turned out, and so far it’s an “astronomical” difference compared to 2016, according to Kristian Lundberg, an associate researcher at the Center for Information Research & Civic Learning and Engagement (CIRCLE). In Texas, for example, more than 1 million voters ages 18 to 29 had voted early in this election as of October 27, compared to just a little more than 100,000 who voted early in 2016. Total youth turnout was 1.2 million in Texas in 2016. 4) What kinds of problems did we see with early voting? The biggest headlines from the early vote were about long lines, long lines, long lines. Long lines are sometimes celebrated as a sign of high voter enthusiasm.