Some state averages started later in 2024 because of a lack of sufficient early polling. Source: Averages by The New York Times; polls collected by FiveThirtyEight and The Times. Nate CohnChief political analyst Despite a strong debate performance,

State law allows voters to cast their ballot up to 46 days before the election, but many will chose to vote on Election Day.

If the 2024 election is as close as polls suggest and the state of Georgia decides the outcome, people may not know who won for “weeks if not months” because of a move a pro-MAGA group pushed in the battleground state.

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Vice President Kamala Harris is set to give a speech focused squarely on abortion rights in Georgia, where news reports have documented women’s deaths in the face of the state’s six-week ban.

According to a Pew Research poll released on September 9, 65 percent of Jewish voters said they back Harris this election, while 34 percent support Trump. In 2020, a report from Pew found that 70 percent of Jewish Americans voted for President Joe Biden, while 27 percent voted for Trump.

Suspicious packages were sent this week to election offices in more than 20 states, leading to an FBI investigation, triggering evacuations and rattling staff, according to a CNN survey of state offices and Associated Press reporting.

Attempts by conservatives to purge state voter rolls ahead of the November election, including from Donald Trump’s campaign and the Republican National Committee, are ramping up, prompting concern from the Justice Department that those efforts might violate federal rules governing how states can manage their lists of registered voters.

Critics plan to sue, saying the new requirement would almost certainly lead to errors and could disrupt the process of certifying the vote in a crucial battleground state.

Voters lined up to cast their ballots in Minnesota, South Dakota and Virginia, the states with the first early in-person voting opportunities.