Early In-Person Voting Ending Friday in 8 States, Including 3 Battlegrounds

People head into a polling location to cast their votes on the last day of early voting for the 2024 election in Atlanta on Nov. 1, 2024. Megan Varner/Getty Images

The last day for early voting in eight states, including three 2024 battlegrounds, is on Friday, with just four days to go before the Nov. 5 election.

States ending early voting on Friday include Nevada, Georgia, and Arizona, as well as Utah, Texas, Massachusetts, one Pennsylvania county after a judge’s order, and some Idaho counties that allow it, according to Vote.org.

According to data compiled by the University of Florida’s Election Lab, more than 68 million Americans have cast early ballots—including voting early in-person or returning mail ballots—so far in the General Election in nearly all 50 states.

As of Friday afternoon, more than 36 million people had voted early in person, and more than 31 million had returned mail-in ballots, the data show.

In the two dozen or so states that report party affiliation, 13 million registered Democrats have cast early in-person or mail ballots, compared with about 12.1 million registered Republicans who have done the same. Meanwhile, some 8.5 million unaffiliated Americans have voted early, according to the website.

Broken down by percentage, about 38.6 of early votes were cast by registered Democrats, 36 percent were from registered Republicans, and the remaining 25.4 percent were unaffiliated voters, the data show.

In Arizona, one of the battleground states, with 847,000 votes cast, Republicans have taken a lead, with a 160,000-ballot advantage over Democrats, who have returned 684,000 votes. Unaffiliated voters have cast 533,000 ballots in Arizona, which only reports mail ballots, according to the compiled figures.

Republicans have also taken a 45,000-vote advantage over Democrats in Nevada for both in-person early and mail-in voting, the figures also show.

Georgia, which officials say has broken records for early voting this year, does not report party affiliation. But nearly 3.7 million people have voted so far, according to the university.

Voters have until the end of the business day to apply for an early mail-in ballot in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, located near Philadelphia.

Those in Bucks County, a bellwether whose residents Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump and Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris have courted in the presidential race’s final days, have until 5 p.m. on Friday to apply for, receive, and cast on the spot a mail-in ballot.

The court-ordered deadline is a three-day extension, stemming from a lawsuit brought by Trump’s campaign, the Republican National Committee, and GOP Senate candidate David McCormick’s campaign this week.

In Pennsylvania’s Erie County, where more than 40,000 people requested early mail ballots, Democrats raised concerns in a lawsuit on Wednesday that thousands of voters were still waiting for them. The suit also alleged that some 1,800 ballots were lost due to postal problems and that about 300 people received two ballots, some of them for the wrong races.

To address the problems, the county has agreed to extend voter registration hours and help voters file provisional ballots at the polls on Tuesday.

“We just want to make sure that we don’t have a continuation of the problem by overloading the system with provisional ballots,” said Clifford Levine, counsel for the Pennsylvania Democratic Party. “I think everybody wants everybody’s vote to count.”

In Pennsylvania, about 1.6 million people have cast ballots so far, according to the University of Florida’s data. Of that figure, about 940,000 Democrats have voted and 546,000 Republicans have done so already.

For the other battleground states, voting will end on Saturday in North Carolina and Wisconsin. Michigan’s last day of early voting is on Sunday, according to Vote.org.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.