Citizens vote on Election Day at Fire Station #71 in Alhambra, Los Angeles County, on November 6, 2012 in California, as Americans flock to the polls nationwide to decide between President Barack Obama, his Rebuplican challenger Mitt Romney, and a wide range of other issues. Alhambra is one of 6 cities in California's 49th Assembly District, the state's first legislative district where Asian-Americans make up the majority of the population. AFP PHOTO / Frederic J. BROWN
More than 26 million voters have already cast early ballots a week ahead of Election Day 2016, according to a new analysis by the NBC News Data Analytics Lab. That’s nearly double the amount of early votes cast at this point in the 2012 election, when roughly 13.5 million voters had cast early ballots. Early votes are cast by in-person voting, absentee voting and mail-in voting.
