(Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden will cast his early-voting ballot in the presidential election on Monday, according to the White House. Many Americans can vote in advance of the Nov. 5 polling day. Biden stood aside earlier this year in the contest that now pits Republican Donald Trump against Democrat Kamala Harris.
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Eligible voters who aren’t registered can visit a center to complete a conditional voter registration and cast a ballot in the election.
As of 4:30 p.m. ET on Friday, more than 35 million Americans have voted early, according to the Election Lab at the University of Florida. Of the votes cast, 16,080,81 were in-person early votes and 18,959,123 were mail-in ballots. Early, in-person voting begins statewide on Saturday in the battleground state of Michigan.
Maine and Nebraska award two electoral votes to the statewide winner and a single electoral vote to the winner of each congressional district. (Maine has two congressional districts, and Nebraska has three.) Historical election results for these districts are calculated based on votes cast within the current boundaries of the district.
In one of a handful of wins for Republicans, the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Friday ruled that mail-in ballots can only be counted if they are received by Election Day, invalidating Mississippi's five-day grace period. Mississippi is not a swing state, and the ruling does not directly apply to any battleground states.