Early Voting Begins as Presidential Race Continues to Tighten
Early voters will make up more than half of the electorate in the crucial states in 2016.
A shadow of a man wearing a cowboy hat falls on a pillar as he enters the polling place at Wickenburg Community Center on Feb. 28, 2012, in Wickenburg, Arizona.
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Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton will slug it out in the presidential race for nine more weeks, but some voters have already begun casting ballots.
Thirty-seven states have laws allowing people to cast absentee ballots without an excuse, or in person, before Election Day on Nov. 8. North Carolina is the first state to start voting when it began mailing out absentee ballots on Friday and—voters there can also vote in person starting Oct. 20—Alabama does so later this week. Minnesota will kick off early in-person voting Sept. 23.