With a little more than a week to go until Election Day, more than 20.7 million pre-election ballots have been cast in 46 states.
Each of the biggies — Texas, California and Florida — already has seen more than 2 million votes cast. Georgia has tallied more than 1.6 million early votes. And according to the U.S. Elections Project at the University of Florida, that trend was driving the projection that this mid-term election would have a higher-than-usual midterm turnout, even through midterms have historically low participation compared to presidential cycles.
“It does seem very robust, early voting,” University of Florida professor Michael McDonald told ABC News on Monday.
But so far, Tennessee — which in 2018 and 2020 remained a largely red state — is not following that trend.
According to the Tennessee Secretary of State’s website, only 536,639 Volunteer State voters had cast early ballots through Saturday evening — a 44.5% decrease from 2018.