"I don't trust the mail right now, that's why (I'm voting today). If I got to stand here all day, I'm going to vote today," Jim O'Conner, a voter in Fairfax County, Virginia, told CNN. Read more.
Voters can also cast in-person early ballots in South Dakota, Wyoming and Minnesota starting today.
They join a handful of states that have already begun to send out -- and accept -- mail-in ballots.
Note: Both Democratic nominee Joe Biden and President Donald Trump were scheduled to hold events on Friday in Minnesota, now a heavily contested state.
New states will open their polls every week.
Forty-five states and Washington, DC, are offering some form of early voting in this bizarre year. Two of the five that don't -- Oregon and New Jersey -- are conducting their elections entirely by mail, according to CNN's political unit.
More than half of the states will have in-person early voting ongoing by October 15.
Nine states are sending mail-in ballots to every voter. Among the rest of the states, 11 have already started sending ballots to people who have requested them.
Get details at our Election 101 hub, which includes a voter guide where you can look up the rules and deadlines in your state.
And know that court cases will continue to complicate this process.
A Pennsylvania ruling. CNN'S Katelyn Polantz reports Democrats had a sweeping victory Thursday in which the Pennsylvania Supreme Court extended the deadline for when mail-in ballots can arrive and gave election officials a green light to add more ballot drop boxes in the state. It also removed the Green Party candidate from the presidential ballot in that crucial state.
The ruling essentially sets the ground rules for the general election, and it means that thousands of Pennsylvanians whose votes would've been rejected for arriving after Election Day will now have their ballots counted.
The deadline for ballots to be returned in Pennsylvania is now November 6 instead of November 3, Election Day.
A Michigan extension. A state judge on Friday dramatically expanded the window for when absentee ballots can arrive and get counted after Election Day in Michigan.
Absentee ballots postmarked before Election Day can now be counted if they arrive two weeks after the polls close. These rules are different for each state.
A Florida investment. In another battleground state, Florida, the billionaire Michael Bloomberg is funneling $100 million to oppose Trump. More evidence that the decisive portion of this campaign could occur now, not later.
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Plus, you can now watch our entire live event, which gets to a lot of what's concerned you. Click for the replay.
Biden 2020 will focus on average Joe
If you didn't get a chance to watch CNN's drive-in town hall with Biden in his hometown of Scranton, Pennsylvania, on Thursday night, catch up here.
What's Biden doing? The main thing I think we learned is that Biden will not, to the extent he's able, be focusing these last two months specifically on the coalition of minority voters and progressives.
He clearly thinks -- at least during this event in Scranton -- the way he'll win in 2020 is by recapturing some of the White, working class vote lost by Hillary Clinton. And his goal is to be moderate.
Put this on a bumper sticker: Check out this canned tagline he had prepared for the night: "I view this campaign as a campaign between Scranton and Park Avenue," Biden said. "All Trump can see from Park Avenue is Wall Street. All he thinks about is the stock market."
Minor geographical note: Trump Tower is on Fifth Avenue. Regardless, this message is not about justice or transformation in a way many liberals would hope.
While Trump has pointed to the strength of the stock market to argue the economy is in good shape, Biden seized on the fact that most working class Americans don't own stock.
As Matt Egan noted this week over at CNN Business, "Just over half (52%) of American families have some level of investment in the market, mostly through 401ks and other retirement accounts, according to the Pew Research Center. Only 14% of households are directly invested in the market."
Biden might have read that story. "In my neighborhood in Scranton, not a lot of people (owned stock). We have to make sure that health care workers are paid, and paid a decent wage. At $15 an hour? It's not enough for a health care worker," he said.
He also interrupted a Trump voter asking him a question to dispute her when she said he's pushing the Green New Deal.
And he made clear he will not ban fracking as climate activists want, arguing instead there will be a transition period to emissions-free power. And that transition will take time.
About climate science. CNN Chief Climate Correspondent Bill Weir tells you on the Politically Sound podcast why presidential leadership is so important in fighting the climate crisis -- and what that means for your vote this November. LISTEN HERE.
Biden wants back what Clinton lost
His focus on the Average Joe ethos might be smart politics. If you look at polling in battlegrounds on CNN's presidential polling page, you'll notice that Biden's holding a fairly strong lead over Trump in the Rust Belt states Clinton lost -- Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin -- with a tighter race in states on Democrats' wish list, like North Carolina.
In CNN polling in Wisconsin earlier this week, Biden led Trump 52%-42%. In North Carolina, Biden had 49% to Trump's 46%.
Read Jennifer Agiesta's full story, but I found these two paragraphs particularly interesting in terms of how Biden is making his pitch:
- Biden trails Trump in a group of seven suburban counties surrounding Milwaukee, a group which includes Kenosha; still, he is behind by a far smaller margin than Hillary Clinton's 20-point loss there in 2016 (42% in those counties back Biden, 53% Trump, compared with a 57% Trump to 37% Clinton margin in 2016).
- In North Carolina, Trump holds an advantage among White likely voters (58% to 38%) while more than 9 in 10 Black voters back Biden (93% to 3% for Trump). Women favor Biden (55% to 42% for Trump) while men break for Trump (51% to 42%). Biden's edge among women in the state comes from women of color. White women favor Trump, 55% to 42%, as do White men (60% to 34%).
This isn't to say Biden can't or won't expand the map. An even race in North Carolina, a state Barack Obama won only in 2008, effectively makes the state a jump ball. And in the most recent polling in Arizona, he has 49% to Trump's 40%. That's a state Trump won in 2016.
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