Battleground State Voters , Are Driving Record Early Turnout.<br />More than 64 million people have already <br />cast their votes for the 2020 election, <br />with an entire week to go before election day.<br />The number is nearly half of the <br />entire vote count for 2016. <br />It is the most votes ever cast in early voting.<br />A shift in voting rules due to the pandemic and polarized <br />reactions to President Donald Trump have contributed <br />to the significant increase in early voter participation.<br />In battleground states — including Florida, <br />Arizona, North Carolina, Nevada and Georgia —.<br />the early ballots make up more than 60 percent <br />of all the votes that were cast in 2016.<br />The number is higher in Texas,<br />where early voters have cast more than <br />80 percent of all the ballots cast in 2016.<br />Analysts say that Biden could be the <br />potential winner in states where mail-in ballots <br />have been utilized the most.<br />In states that show fewer mail-in ballots cast, <br />Trump could be the winner if his prediction of an <br />in person, "red-wave" proves to be accurate
