Election Day 2024 arrived on Tuesday with tens of millions of Americans having already cast their ballots. Those include record numbers in Georgia, North Carolina and other battleground states that could decide the winner.
The early turnout in Georgia, which has flipped between the Republican and Democratic nominees in the previous two presidential elections, has been so robust over 4 million voters that a top official in the secretary of state's office said the big day could look like a ghost town at the polls.
As of Monday, Associated Press tracking of advance voting nationwide showed roughly 82 million ballots already cast slightly more than half the total number of votes in the presidential election four years earlier.
That's driven partly by Republican voters, who were casting early ballots at a higher rate than in recent previous elections after a campaign by former President Donald Trump and the Republican National Committee to counter the Democrats' longstanding advantag