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Last updated: Monday, October 28, 2024 10:57AM GMT
Harris, Trump hit the battleground states ahead of Election Day

The race for the White House is heading into the final stretch with most polls showing Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump neck-and-neck in key states with less than two weeks to go.

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Oct 27, 2024, 3:27 PM

Over 40M voters have cast a vote

As of 8:30 a.m. PT on Oct. 27, over 40.1 million Americans have cast a vote through early voting methods, as of Saturday evening, according to data from the University of Florida's Election Lab.

The majority of those early votes come from mail ballots with over 20.8 million mail ballots returned nationally, the data showed. The remaining 19.2 million come from votes cast at in-person early voting polling sites across the country.

Early voting options are now open to voters in 50 states and the District of Columbia. Many early voting periods will last until the weekend before Election Day.

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Oct 22, 2024, 2:13 PM GMT

Nevada Republicans outpace Democrats in early in-person voting, trail in mail-in voting

Republicans are outpacing Democrats in in-person early voting in Nevada while Democrats are outpacing Republicans in mail-in voting, the Nevada Secretary of State Office's latest report shows.

The latest report, updated Monday night, reflects early in-person voting and mail-in voting turnout in the first three days. It showed 52% of in-person early voters so far have been Republicans, while 28% were Democrats. Of all mail-in ballots cast so far, 43% so far have been Democrats and 30% Republicans.

The pattern reflects trends from the 2020 presidential election, when Republicans outpaced Democrats in early in-person voting and Democrats outpaced Republicans with mail-in voting.

In total, 245,356 mail-in ballots and early in-person ballots had been cast as of Monday night, with just under 40% of them being Republicans and 36% of them being Democrats.

In-person early voting in Nevada began on Oct. 19.

-ABC News' Soorin Kim

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Oct 22, 2024, 11:42 AM GMT

Could teenage voters swing Pennsylvania?

In the final sprint of the election campaign, local officials in the key battleground state of Pennsylvania have mounted an unprecedented push to engage some of the state's newest and untested voters: 18-year-old high school seniors.

"They're the largest registered bloc of voters in the city. It's just a matter of getting them energized to come out and turn out to vote," said Philadelphia City Commissioner Seth Bluestein.

Fewer than half of 18- and 19-year-old voters nationwide cast ballots in the 2020 election, according to the Center for Information and Research on Learning and Engagement at Tufts University.

At Martin Luther King High School in Germantown, Pennsylvania, ABC News joined hundreds of high school seniors assembled for an outdoor field day of election-themed activities.

"I am following the political election a lot. I am into the debates, and I am watching the debates. So I do feel pretty positive about who I'm taking on voting for this year," said Jymirah Wood.

She and fellow senior Janeeiah Simmons said they also volunteered to be poll workers on Election Day.

"I'm not, like, someone who's super duper political myself," Simmons said, "but I feel like in this year with the election, it's really important because so many changes can happen depending on who wins."

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-ABC News' Devin Dwyer and Patty See

Oct 22, 2024, 11:17 AM GMT

Elon Musk's PAC pays out 3rd $1M check to voter

Elon Musk's America PAC said late Monday that it handed out a third $1 million check to a voter who has signed its petition backing the Constitution.

The PAC said in a post to X that the check was given to Shannon Tomei from McKees Rocks, Pennsylvania, posting a photograph of Tomei holding the check.

"Every day until Election Day, a person who signs the petition will be selected to earn $1M as a spokesperson for America PAC," it added.

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Musk shared the announcement and congratulated Tomei. In other posts, he has been urging people to register to vote in Pennsylvania -- a crucial battleground state in next month's presidential election.

The first two winners were announced during a town hall in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, over the weekend, with Musk handing over the checks to the winners on stage. It's unclear how the third check was delivered.

Musk has thrown his weight behind former President Donald Trump and the Republican Party, describing Trump as the only candidate "to preserve democracy in America."

-ABC News' Soorin Kim

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Oct 22, 2024, 8:37 AM GMT

Walz to travel to Kentucky, North Carolina and Pennsylvania later this week

After Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz campaigns in Wisconsin on Tuesday (where he'll be joined by former President Barack Obama for a rally in Madison), he'll remain out on the trail this week.

On Wednesday, Walz will speak at an evening fundraiser in Louisville, Kentucky.

On Thursday, he will spend the morning making political stops in Durham, North Carolina -- just a week after he visited the city with former President Bill Clinton. He'll then make local stops in Greenville, North Carolina, in the afternoon and hold a rally in Wilmington that night.

On Friday, Walz will campaign in Philadelphia, where he'll speak at a fundraiser in the city around noon.

-ABC News' Isabella Murray