LINCOLN- This year's early ballot returns have exceeded total statewide votes cast in the 2016 presidential primary, reaching unprecedented levels, Secretary of State Bob Evnen said Thursday. Evnen said counties are continuing to receive a record number of early ballots, adding daily to the count of votes cast in Nebraska’s primary election. Nebraska has about 1.2 million registered voters, and 441,466 of them have requested early ballots.

That number does not include the 52,132 ballots mailed to voters in Nebraska’s 11 mail-in-only counties, Evnen said. To date 296,968 ballots from early voters and 24,560 ballots from all-mail-in counties have been returned, for a total of 321,528 ballots already cast in the 2020 primary election. "This surpasses 313,000 total statewide votes cast in the 2016 primary election," he said.

As of Thursday, 67% of early ballots have been returned, and 47% of ballots from mail-in-only counties have been returned.

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