New Jerseyans cast 858,000 advance votes, including massive 247,000 early votes in first two days
New Jersey voters cast 247,003 in-person early votes on Saturday and Sunday, the first two days of a nine-day early voting period.
As of last night, 858,031 advance votes had been cast by voters in New Jersey, bringing the statewide turnout to 12.9% of all registered voters and roughly 14.2% of active voters, according to an analysis by Associated Press election researcher Ryan Dubicki.
Those numbers include 611,028 returned vote-by-mail ballots out of 1,096,199 that county clerks have mailed. That represents a 55.7% return rate statewide.
Early voting attracted 136,075 voters on Saturday and 111,928 on Sunday.
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