Cooper, a political science professor at Western Carolina University in Cullowhee, N.C., and Michael Bitzer, an expert on North Carolina politics at Catawba College in Salisbury, N.C., cautioned in a blog post against reading too much into the data.

North Carolina's elections board said Friday that 353,166 people cast ballots in the state's first day of early voting.

Early voting begins in the battleground state of North Carolina on Thursday, as the western part of the state still feels the impacts of Hurricane Helene’s flooding three weeks later. More than 400 voting locations in the state’s 100 counties were expected to open Thursday for the early voting period,

The ballot boxes are set up as voters in Massachusetts can begin casting their ballots on Saturday, Oct. 19 ahead of Election Day.

Massachusetts voters can begin casting early ballots in person on Saturday, joining the hundreds of thousands who have already begun submitting their ballots by mail.

Early, in-person voting in the Bay State starts this Saturday, Oct. 19, and runs until Friday, Nov. 1, according to Secretary of State William L. Galvin’s office.

A million voters have turned out in Georgia as of 11:50 a.m. on Friday, the fourth day of early voting in the critical battleground state. Georgia Secretary of State Chief Operating Officer Gabriel Sterling announced the milestone on X,

Former President Trump rallied in Georgia on Tuesday, the first day of early voting in the state, urging supporters to cast their ballots ahead of Election Day in the crucial battleground state. “Early mail-in voting in your state is now underway,