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: 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. Pandemic safety protocols, a reduced number of polling sites, and poll worker shortages in some places also slow down the process. Sometimes technical glitches at voting sites cause delays, which ripple throughout the day. And observers often point to the hours-long wait times that many voters face as part of a pattern of voter suppression. Voters in many of America’s peer democracies don’t spend hours standing in line to cast their ballots, and US voting advocates believe reforms such as expanding early voting and standardizing some voting procedures and resources could ease wait times. That would also cut down on more nefarious suppression tactics, such as reducing the number of polling stations in minority neighborhoods.