Some state averages started later in 2024 because of a lack of sufficient early polling. Source: Averages by The New York Times; polls collected by FiveThirtyEight and The Times. Nate CohnChief political analyst Despite a strong debate performance,

If the 2024 election is as close as polls suggest and the state of Georgia decides the outcome, people may not know who won for “weeks if not months” because of a move a pro-MAGA group pushed in the battleground state.

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According to a Pew Research poll released on September 9, 65 percent of Jewish voters said they back Harris this election, while 34 percent support Trump. In 2020, a report from Pew found that 70 percent of Jewish Americans voted for President Joe Biden, while 27 percent voted for Trump.

Attempts by conservatives to purge state voter rolls ahead of the November election, including from Donald Trump’s campaign and the Republican National Committee, are ramping up, prompting concern from the Justice Department that those efforts might violate federal rules governing how states can manage their lists of registered voters.

Virginia is the first state to allow early in-person voting, a milestone moment six weeks before election day.

Since the 2020 election, the Justice Department’s Election Threats Task Force has arrested and prosecuted about a dozen people for threatening election workers. In contrast, experts say actual voter fraud, or instances of people voting improperly, are vanishingly rare.

Some states use hand counts when conducting recounts in close elections, or as part of routine post-election audits, said Mark Lindeman, the policy and strategy director for Verified Voting, which supports the responsible use of technology in elections. A handful of tiny jurisdictions use hand counts in place of voting machines.