National: Voting and vote-counting concerns grow ahead of midterms | Rick Klein, Averi Harper, and Alisa Wiersema/ABC
Almost 2 million people have already voted in this year’s general election — a level of participation reached earlier than ever in a midterm cycle, according to the University of Florida’s U.S. Elections Project. With 22 days — and what may be more than 100 million more ballots — to go before Nov. 8, the pace of voting is set to pick up even as questions grow around almost every aspect of voting: access to ballots, manpower running elections, the pace and integrity of vote counting and, of course, whether results will be accepted by losing Republicans up and down the ballot. Early voting starts Monday in Georgia, a state at the center of so many of 2020’s political storms and where additional voting restrictions have been imposed since then. Monday night’s debate between Republican Gov. Brian Kemp and Democratic candidate Stacey Abrams is likely to surface questions about 2022 in a high-profile way. Other key states, meanwhile, are already warning that vote counting could take days after Election Day to complete — and that if that happens, it doesn’t indicate there’s automatically something to mistrust about the results.
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