As millions of Americans cast their ballots early, Election Day has morphed into Election Season.
By Patrick Marley, Yvonne Wingett Sanchez, Joel Achenbach and Molly Hennessy-Fiske, The Washington PostElection volunteers chat with potential voters as people queue to cast their ballots at Bojangles Coliseum on the last day of early voting in Charlotte, North Carolina, on Saturday.
“Election Day is just the end of voting now,” said Barry Burden, director of the Elections Research Center at the University of Wisconsin in Madison. “We have many election days and it’s just the final day on which ballots can be cast.” “This way I can get it done earlier and get it done with,” Terri Ellis, 71, said after casting her ballot for Vice President Kamala Harris on Thursday in Marshall, Wisconsin.
Barack Obama encouraged his backers to vote early when he first ran for president in 2008, and other campaigns soon embraced the strategy because it allowed them to lock down their supporters’ votes and concentrateon undecided voters. Now, voters in red, blue and purple states are taking advantage of the chance to cast ballots before Election Day.
Craig Oran, 43, needed only a few minutes to cast his ballot for Harris on Thursday in Marshall, a small town about 15 miles from Madison, Wisconsin. The graphic designer said he wanted to beat Election Day crowds and thinks voting in person is more secure than voting by mail. He felt confident in that theory after an arsonist placed an incendiary device on a ballot drop box and burned hundreds of ballots this week in Vancouver, Washington.
In Maricopa County, turnout this week surpassed 2016 turnout significantly and was nearing 2020 levels, according to elections director Scott Jarrett. “We have had the most in-person early voters than we’ve ever had at this stage of the election cycle,” Jarrett said. on Friday. The process, he said, was smooth and he’s confident that his vote will be properly counted. “There are way too many eyes looking at the process and I think it will go through honestly,” he said. “I’m hoping.”Yuleisi Hardy, a Republican who immigrated from Cuba, voted for the first time in an American election in Phoenix on Friday.
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