There may be two weeks left before Election Day, but the 2024 election is well underway. Around 18 million Americans had cast their ballots, either by mail or in early in-person voting, by Tuesday. There have already been some startling numbers, with the Georgia secretary of state noting first-day voting totals in the state were more than double the record. North Carolina also set a first-day record, though by a much narrower margin. There is still an open question, however, as to whether the early voting totals in the end will eclipse the numbers seen in 2020, when the nation was in the grips of the COVID-19 pandemic. More than 100 million votes were cast early in 2020 — roughly two-thirds of all votes in the election overall.