Vote early and in person if you can! By Hank Silverberg Have you voted yet? I know the election isn't until November 3rd, but early voting has started in four states, and it appears people are breaking all kinds of records this year taking advantage of it. Why? Maybe it's all that talk of trouble with mail-in voting, or people who are worried about long lines on November 3rd with Covid-19 remaining a threat. A total of 42 states offer some kind of early voting, either in person or by mail (see link below). In Virginia where my wife and I voted this past week, almost 200,000 cast in-person ballots in the first five days of early voting. Elections officials in Virginia say additionally 926,000 absentee/mail- in ballots had been issued as of September 25, almost double the number who actually voted absentee four years ago. This year, fear of Covid-19 has been added to the list of reasons you can use for applying for an absentee ballot in Virginia. Not so, in many other stat