Texas, Florida, and California have the most pre-election ballots cast so far

Women stand in line to vote in North Carolina.

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published 7 November 2022

As of Sunday, more than 40 million people in 47 states have cast their ballots ahead of Tuesday's midterm elections, CNN reports.

The early voting data comes from election officials, and has been analyzed by Edison Research and Catalist. It shows Texas has had more than 5.4 million ballots cast, the most of any state, while Florida has had over 4.5 million and California has had more than 4.1 million. Georgia and North Carolina are the only other states to have more than 2 million ballots cast early.

Georgia's secretary of state's office announced on Saturday that "Georgia's record breaking early turnout concluded with 2,288,889 voters casting their ballot during early voting, with 231,063 showing up on Friday, Nov. 4th." This is a 21 percent increase over the number of ballots cast prior to Election Day in 2018. In 2020, nearly 2.7 million people voted early in the presidential election.

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Catherine Garcia has worked as a senior writer at The Week since 2014. Her writing and reporting have appeared in Entertainment Weekly, The New York Times, Wirecutter, NBC News and "The Book of Jezebel," among others. She's a graduate of the University of Redlands and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.