Despite Republican opposition to early voting in prior years, the method is encouraged at an early vote rally in Chesterfield on Oct. 26, 2024 hosted by Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s political action committee. (Charlotte Rene Woods/Virginia Mercury)
One day before the presidential election, early voting turnout in Virginia is falling short of the historic highs seen in 2020, the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic.
As of Sunday, more than 2.29 million Virginians have already cast their ballots — a 525,000 decrease from the unprecedented 2.82 million early votes cast by Nov. 3, 2020, during the last presidential election, according to data from the Virginia Public Access Project…