Five states join the rest of the country on Wednesday as they start the early voting process for the 2024 election.
Iowa, Kansas, Nevada, Oregon and Rhode Island make a total of 49 states and Washington, D.C., that have begun early voting.
Here’s how to cast a ballot in each state.
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A volunteer sanitizes a voting booth at a polling location for the 2020 presidential election in Ankeny, Iowa.
Nevada is one of the most competitive states this cycle
Forever a battleground, reliably Democrat: That’s the story of Nevada’s presidential politics.
The state has voted for every Democrat who has run for president since 1992, except the two elections with President Bush on the ballot. But the average margin across those eight elections is just 4.1 points.
There are only six electoral votes at stake, but they could be crucial for either candidate. If Harris wins two of the battleground Rust Belt states but loses Pennsylvania, for example, then a combination of Nevada and North Carolina would make up for the deficit.
Nevada is home to the “Reid Machine,” a voter turnout operation named after late Senate leader Harry Reid, that activates voters favorable to Democrats, especially Hispanic and unionized hospitality workers in the Las Vegas area.
Those groups aren’t as overwhelmingly Democrat as they used to be. The party has shed 10 points worth of the Hispanic vote since 2020 and seven points of the non-college-educated vote.
Voters backed a Republican for governor in 2022; that election came two years after the COVID-19 pandemic decimated the tourism industry. They held on to their Democrat senator.
Republicans do well in the vast rural areas led by Lincoln County, where Trump won by 71 points in 2020, and the state’s northeastern counties.
The battleground is Washoe County, home to Reno. Biden won there by 4.5 points in 2020, making it the state’s closest county.
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