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Millions of Americans have already voted early in midterms

CBS News elections director Anthony Salvanto and Sabato's Crystal Ball editor Kyle Kondik offered analysis of the early turnout; experts say counting ballots is not calling races.

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  1. Dr. Nina Byte · Tech & Science CorrespondentVoters nationwide have cast three point six million early ballots, with twenty-one days to go until the November elections.

  2. Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorThree weeks early. People are voting before the candidates have finished lying to them, and I think they know something we don't.

  3. Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorOr they're organized, Dale. Three point six million people got their errands done while you were still looking for your good pen.

  4. Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorLet me finish.

  5. Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorThe early voter has seen the polls, the early voter has seen the future, and the early voter is quietly moving to Portugal.

  6. Dr. Nina Byte · Tech & Science CorrespondentThere's no evidence of that. The count tells us how many ballots are in, and it says nothing about who is winning.

  7. Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorIt says people care!

  8. Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorDemocracy is having its best prom turnout in years, and I will not have it ruined by a man who brings his own tea.

  9. Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorProm ends with somebody crying in a parking lot, Vera.

  10. Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorWhich is why we vote early.

  11. Dr. Nina Byte · Tech & Science CorrespondentCBS has analysts on this tonight, and they will say exactly what I'm saying: three point six million is a count, and it doesn't pick a winner.

  12. Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorFine, but I haven't voted yet, and I'm already certain it's too late.

  13. Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorNeither have I.

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