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Scott Rasmussen's Number of the Day for August 23, 2022
The Number of the Day columns published on Ballotpedia reflect the views of the author.
August 23, 2022: Early voting across the country is set to begin 27 days from today. Voters in Pennsylvania are first up - they will be able to head to the polls and vote early in the 2022 election starting Monday, Sept. 19. By the end of September, early voting will have started in eight other states.
Thirty-two more states will allow early voting starting in October, and another three will allow a period of early voting during the first week of November. Five states do not allow early voting. As of this writing, information was not available on the start of early voting in Maine. Maine statute requires that early voting begin as soon as ballots are printed, which must take place between 30 and 45 days before the election. This year early voting in Maine will begin between Sept. 24 and Oct. 9 and will run through Nov. 3.
Of the states that do allow early voting, the average early voting period lasts 21 days, or three weeks. The three states with the longest early voting period are Minnesota, South Dakota, and Wyoming, each of which allows early voting between Friday, Sept. 23, and Monday, Nov. 7. This 46-day early voting period is more than double the national average.
Nine states have an early voting period shorter than 10 days, including three with early voting periods less than one week long. Of the states that are holding early voting, none has a shorter timeframe than Kentucky. Voters there can vote early starting Thursday, Nov. 3, through Saturday, Nov. 5.
The most common day of the week for early voting to start this year is Monday; nine states will open early voting periods on Monday. Wednesday, Thursday, and Saturday follow, with eight states opening early voting on each. The only day of the week that no states open early voting periods on is Sunday.
No state has a longer delay between the primary date and the beginning of early voting this year than Texas, with 237 days between the state’s first-in-the-nation primaries on March 1 and the start of its early voting period on Oct. 24. The shortest delay will be in Rhode Island, where just 36 days separate the Sept. 13 primaries from the beginning of early voting on Oct. 19. The average delay between the primaries and the beginning of early voting is 107 days, or roughly three and a half months.
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