The state of Vermont is currently leading the country in percentage of turned in absentee ballots, reports WCAX.
According to the new data, 30% of voters have cast their ballots, which equals approximately 95,000 VT residents.
This election year, in response to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, legislation has allowed all voters to receive absentee ballots in the mail, which has led to the large numbers of pre-election day votes.
According to Middlebury College Professor Eric Davis, this has led to a change in how campaigns have spent their money in the run-up to November. “Whether it’s television and radio advertising, direct mail, the get-out-the-vote spending and mobilization, you may have concentrated that in the last two weeks of the campaign. The time to be doing that is right now. Indeed, for some candidates it may be too late if they haven’t already.”
According to the report, around 325,000 Vermonters voted in the 2016 general election.
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