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Hey, how's it going?

I'm Playbook editor Mike DeBonis.

Happy Monday.

Something a little different today to preview the week.

I'm joined by Playbook Deputy Editor, Zach Stanton, for today's Playbook Daily Briefing.

Okay, Zach, we're two weeks and a day out from Election Day.

One of the things that you personally

are obsessive about tracking are the early voting totals ahead of Election Day. And according to

the trackers that we follow, and you can tell us about who gathers this information, we already

have more than 7 million votes, 7. a half million votes as of Sunday afternoon.

What should we make of this?

So I think that there are a couple things to make of it.

The first is that the pandemic has really changed the ways that people vote.

I think people got accustomed during the pandemic, briefly, as our experience with it, was in this particular respect, they got used to voting absentee.

They got used to voting early.

The trends that we saw in 2020, in some ways, are coming to pass again in 2022.

The numbers that I look at are aggregated by Michael McDonald, a professor of political science at

University of Florida, who oversees this thing called the United States Election Project,

which aggregates data from Secretary of States and election offices throughout the country,

pretty much throughout the day, every day between now and the election.

Seven and a half million is their count as of Sunday night.

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