#earlyvote afternoon update 10/22: at least 20 million people have voted in the 2026 general election 🥳🎉 election.lab.ufl.edu/early-v…

#earlyvote afternoon update 10/22: at least 19 million people have voted in the 2026 general election 🥳 election.lab.ufl.edu/early-v…

An update on Florida's early voting. It is still trailing 2022 due, in part, to a significant change in law regarding mail ballot requests. Democrats and Unaffiliated voters are making up ground in the in-person early vote, but Republicans not so much michaelmcdonald.substack.com…

#earlyvote morning update 10/22: at least 18 million people have voted in the 2026 general election 🥳 election.lab.ufl.edu/early-v…

#earlyvote midday update 10/21: at least 16 million people have voted in the 2026 general election 🥳 election.lab.ufl.edu/early-v…

Mail ballot requests are mostly down, but returns are up suggesting voters are returning mail ballots sooner michaelmcdonald.substack.com…

#earlyvote morning update 10/21: at least 14 million people have voted in the 2026 general election 🥳 election.lab.ufl.edu/early-v…

#earlyvote afternoon update 10/20: at least 13 million people have voted in the 2026 general election 🥳 election.lab.ufl.edu/early-v…

#earlyvote midday update 10/20: at least 12 million people have voted in the 2026 general election 🥳 election.lab.ufl.edu/early-v…

#earlyvote morning update 10/20: at least 11 million people have voted in the 2026 general election 🥳 election.lab.ufl.edu/early-v…

Updated analysis of Georgia and North Carolina early voting as of yesterday. Early voting continues to be elevated over 2018 and 2022. Hispanics continue to boom. NC Whites finally moved above 2018 levels, but it isn't due to registered Republicans voting michaelmcdonald.substack.com…

#earlyvote evening update 10/19: at least 10.6 million people have voted in the 2026 general election 🥳 election.lab.ufl.edu/early-v…

Maine mail ballot returns are up over 2022 and 2018. Democrats are leading the way in yet another state, although here there are signs of Republican engagement, just not as high of levels as Democrats and unaffiliated voters michaelmcdonald.substack.com…

Here's a Nebraska same-day comparison to 2022. Like other states, early voting turnout is up compared to 2022 (sorry, no 2018 data files for a comparison). Registered Democrats and unaffiliated voters' turnout is up, while Republican is down michaelmcdonald.substack.com…

#earlyvote afternoon update 10/19: at least 10 million people have voted in the 2026 general election 🥳🎉 election.lab.ufl.edu/early-v…

Kansas is another state where we are seeing early vote increases over 2022, and where registered Democrats are leading the way. But there is not yet a lot of votes here and some counties haven't offered in-person early voting yet michaelmcdonald.substack.com…

I updated the trend line posts for Georgia and North Carolina early voting overall and by race. For North Carolina, I updated the party registration charts, including party registration early voting for White Republicans (who are lagging the most) michaelmcdonald.substack.com…

#earlyvote afternoon update 10/18: at least 9 million people have voted in the 2026 general election 🥳🎉 election.lab.ufl.edu/early-v…