34 Million Ballots Already Cast — Early Voting Running Even With 2018’s Record Midterm

Call me a dinosaur, but Election Day should mean Election Day – not a monthlong voting marathon. Stretch the process across weeks, too much time, too many opportunities for skulduggery and chicanery. One need only look at elections here and abroad to see how many ways the results can be manipulated. In my view, election manipulation has become the preferred instrument of power seizure: the bloodless coup. No tanks in the streets. Just the machinery of democracy turned against the people it is supposed to serve.

Six days out, the turnout story is hard numbers, not models — and the pace is matching the highest-turnout midterm in a century. States Newsroom: As of Tuesday afternoon, more than 34 million people have either gone to the