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Nearly 100 million Americans voted upfront in the US presidential elections, a figure that broke all records and represents 72.3% of all votes in the 2016 contest.
There were 99,657,079 votes as of Monday (2), according to the “Elections Project” from the University of Florida. Throughout, 35,720,830 votes in person and 63,936,249 by mail.
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In four states, early voting surpassed all votes in 2016: Hawaii (110.6%), Texas (108.3%), Washington (105.4%) and Montana (102.4%).
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Several other states also had significant votes, including key “battlefields” like Florida and North Carolina.
Seven were close to beating the entire 2016 vote ahead of time: New Mexico (97.3%), Nevada (96.7%), Oregon (95.8%), Colorado (95.8%), North Carolina ( 95.4%), Florida (93.7%) and Arizona (92.9%).
Due to the new coronavirus pandemic, the voting system before Election Day has been adopted across the country, previously only available in some states.
The United States is the country with the most deaths (231 thousand) and Covid cases (9.2 million) in the world and accounts for around 20% of deaths and infections worldwide.
Understand in the video below why the early voting record should make it difficult to calculate the result:
Voting by mail should make it difficult to determine the outcome of the US elections
In the US presidential election, the candidate who receives the most votes does not necessarily win (This has happened at least five times in history, including Trump’s victory in 2016).
In the Electoral College, each state has a number of delegates and the state vote operates on a “winner takes all” system: The candidate who wins, regardless of the advantage, takes the votes of all the delegates of the state.
There are 538 delegates, divided between the 50 states and the District of Columbia (where the capital Washington is located).
Little Vermont, for example, has just three delegates, while California, the most populous state, has 55. Texas is the second largest (38), followed by Florida and New York (with 29 delegates each) and Illinois and Pennsylvania (20).
Thus, the candidate needs a strategy to win from state to state until reaching the minimum of 270 of the 538 votes of the Electoral College. and be elected president. It happened four years ago: Trump had fewer votes than Hillary, but he won 276 delegates and won the election.
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