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A record number of voters have come out in the opening days of early voting, easily outpacing the numbers from previous years, according to officials.
On the first day, there were a total of more than 154,000 voters, with approximately another 140,000 casting their vote on day two,
Jared DeMarinis, the State Administrator of Elections said that on the first day alone, there were more voters than the entire early voting period for the 2024 primary.
The day one numbers also surpassed any single day of early voting from 2020 to the present, he added, stating that it "could be a historic number of voters" when it is all said and done.
According to the University of Florida Election Lab, there have been 286,220 in-person early voters to date, with the early numbers skewing toward Democrat (147,619 votes / 51.6 percent) over Republican. (96,754 / 33.8 percent) as of Saturday morning.
Early voting continues through Thursday, Oct. 31.
There are 97 early voting centers throughout Maryland in these locations:
- Allegany: 1;
- Anne Arundel: 10;
- Baltimore City: 8;
- Baltimore County: 11;
- Calvert: 3;
- Caroline: 1;
- Carroll: 3;
- Cecil: 2:
- Charles: 3;
- Dorchester: 1;
- Frederick: 4;
- Garrett: 2;
- Harford: 4;
- Howard: 5;
- Kent: 1;
- Montgomery: 14;
- Prince George's: 11;
- Queen Anne's: 2;
- St. Mary's: 3;
- Somerset: 1;
- Talbot: 1;
- Washington: 2;
- Wicomico: 2;
- Worcester: 1.
There will be three ways to vote: Early voting, by mail (register here), or on site on Election Day. The deadline to request a mail-in ballot is 5 p.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 29. They can be postmarked no later than Nov. 5.
"If you are eligible but not yet registered to vote, you can register and vote during early voting," according to vote411. "Go to an early voting center in the county where you live and bring a document that proves where you live."
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