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Early voting suggests a record 213 million people are eligible to vote this year, said McDonald, who also works with the consortium that conducts election exit polling for broadcast and news networks.
"This will be the election in which the most people have ever voted in an American election in the history of our country," he said.
McDonald said early voting is often a good prediction of the level of turnout on Election Day, and heavy early voting indicates the turnout this year will exceed the 60 percent turnout in the 2004 election.
"We have a very good chance of beating the 64 percent turnout in the 1960 election," McDonald said. "We really could be looking at a historic election in modern American history."
That race saw the highest level of turnout in American history, except the 66 percent turnout in the 1908 presidential election.
my conservative county had almost 50% voting before saturday, so i second that motion!
It's shaping up to be one monumental day!
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