Early voter turnout for 2022 midterms on pace to meet record-setting 2018 – By Herb Scribner (Axios) / Oct 22, 2022
It’s still early, but voter turnout for the 2022 midterms appears to be on pace to shatter previous records.
The big picture: The 2018 midterm election broke records for early voting and voter turnout. All eyes are on 2022 to see if such a feat can happen again.
Details: More than 5.8 million ballots have already been cast across 39 states in the 2022 midterm election, according to new data from Edison Research and Catalist, per CNN. The data show that voting numbers remain on par with the 2018 midterms.
By the numbers: Over 122 million people voted in the 2018 midterm elections, which was the highest in a midterm election year since 1978, according to the Pew Research Center.
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