As early voting ramps up in the United States (US) presidential election, 25 million ballots have already been cast Washington, D.C., United States – As the world looks forward to the 2024 United States (US) elections, it has emerged that nearly 25 million voters have already cast ballots. The electorate exercised their franchise either through in-person early voting or mail-in ballots, according to tracking data from the Election Lab at the University of Florida, Gainesville.

According to Reuters on Thursday, October 24, several states, including the battlegrounds of North Carolina and Georgia, set records on their respective first day of early voting last week. Georgia and Pennsylvania are among the seven battleground states that will decide who wins the presidency, and Kamala Harris and Donald Trump are likely to spend much of the rest of their campaigns visiting them. Legit.ng reports that the 2024 US presidential election is set to be held on Tuesday, November 5, 2024. Voters in each state and the District of Columbia will choose electors to the Electoral College, who will then elect a president and vice president for a term of four years.

The incumbent president, Joe Biden, a member of the Democratic Party, is not contesting. Rather, Harris is on the ballot for the party. The incumbent US vice president is being challenged by Trump, a former US president and the Republican Party flagbearer. Earlier, Legit.ng reported that Trump stopped by McDonald’s in Pennsylvania. On the same day, Harris visited churches in Georgia, urging congregants to cast early ballots as part of her campaign’s “souls to the polls” push to turn out Black voters.