The Virginia gubernatorial candidates are in a last-minute race to drive turnout ahead of the November election.
as he tries to court moderate voters in a state that Trump lost by 10 percentage points to Biden in 2020.Saturday marked the final day for early voting in Virginia, which has been dramatically expanded during the past two years of unified Democratic control of state government.
Over 1.1 million out of the state’s approximately 5.9 million registered voters cast a ballot early this year, according to state data published by the nonpartisan Virginia Public Access Project. That’s down sharply from the 2.8 million early votes in last year’s presidential election but marks a dramatic increase compared with the mere 195,634 early votes during the last gubernatorial cycle, before the voting reforms were instituted.
Republicans, despite generally opposing the Democrats’ election reforms, have also encouraged their supporters to vote early this year.
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