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As of close of business Fri., Oct. 16, US Elections Project estimated 28.4+ million voters had cast ballots prior to Election Day. That's roughly 20% of the total ballots in the 2016 Presidential Election.

And we still have 15 more days of early voting!

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Across the nation, election officials, academics, and pundits are projecting that it’s possible the total turnout from the 2016 Presidential Election may be exceeded this year just during the early voting period. Not even accounting for Election Day voting.

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Experts project US voters may cast up to 150 million presidential ballots in 2020, based on 2013 midterm turnout. If true, that would exceed the 139 million ballots cast in the 2016 Presidential Election, likely an increase of about 9% over 2016 totals.

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If those projections are true, that means national turnout could reach its highest mark in more than a century, going back to the 1908 Presidential Election when 65% of eligible voters cast ballots.

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As of last Friday, more than 90,000 Minneapolis voters had returned completed absentee ballots. That equates to about 10% of the total early vote turnout achieved across the State of Minnesota, according to @MNSecofState.

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Today, EVS collected 2,051 absentee ballots from the Early Vote Center at 980 Hennepin Ave. East and our **12 Ballot Drop-Off sites***. Our friends at @HC_Elections collected another 527 ballots.

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Since early voting began on Sep. 18, EVS has received a total of 12,392 absentee ballots from early in-person voters at the City’s primary Early Voting Center co-located at EVS headquarters at 980 Hennepin Avenue E.

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Today EVS received 3,279 completed Vote-By-Mail ballots. In total, EVS has issued a total of 149,279 Vote-By-Mail ballots. Since early voting began Sep. 18, EVS has received a total of 64,040 completed VBM ballots.

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***UPDATED EARLY VOTE STATS***

Minneapolis, you’ve passed the 100,000 early ballot threshold.

ABSOLUTE NEW RECORD

NO. WORDS.

#WeVote

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