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More Than One Million People Have Already Voted In Massachusetts

October 22, 2020

It isn’t November 3 yet, but more than one million Bay Staters have already voted.

As of the end of Tuesday, 1,001,275 ballots had been completed and returned — whether that was through the mail, via a local drop box, or voting early in-person. That’s 21.5 percent of eligible voters in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, as WCVB reports.

In the 2016 presidential election, more than three million people voted in Massachusetts, according to The New York Times. 

Former vice president Joe Biden is the favorite to win the presidential race in the state. A Republican has not won Massachusetts in a presidential race since 1984.