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Millions of Americans are voting for the first time this year, and it's not just young people

Millions of Americans are voting for the first time this year, and it's not just young people

Millions of Americans are voting for the first time this year, and it's not just young people
Oct 30, 2020 3 mins, 30 secs

I stayed with them," said Duvall, who raised three children with her husband of 63 years. "I decided this time that I wanted the right man in there.".

"The pace of some states' early voting is such that with almost certainty states will begin surpassing their total 2016 total vote this week.".

At this time in 2016, about 4.4 million first-time voters had cast ballots, including 2.1 million people over 40.

But many said it's simply much easier to vote this year: States have expanded early and mail-in voting options, and voting is all people are talking about.

It makes you feel better," said Duvall, who filled out an absentee ballot at her nursing home for Trump.

Duvall said her husband always voted, but she stayed home with the children. Rick Duvall, 66, said his mother has followed Trump on Fox News every day since his election.

"I have always felt like my vote doesn't not matter. My voice does not count," Gilmore said.

Jay Gilmore, 41, cast his vote in a presidential race for the first time ever in 2020.

Fellow Tennessean James Butler, 52, an HVAC technician and carpenter, said he felt "on top of the world" after voting for the first time, for Biden.

James Butler waits in the early voting line to vote for the first time in 55 years at the Knoxville Expo Center polling station in Knoxville, Tenn., on Thursday, Oct.

In previous years, she has made it to voting sites but never actually cast a vote.

So when COVID-19 allowed for expanded voting by absentee ballot across the country, Hess knew she could cast her vote without having to face similar issues.

"I don't think he's handled this pandemic properly," Hess said of Trump.

Dana Fisher, 39, and his wife drove more than 1,000 miles from South Carolina to Massachusetts to cast their votes for Trump at the polls this year.

For Fisher, a software engineer and the former director of a nonprofit working with people experiencing homelessness, it was his first time voting in 20 years.

His wife, a nurse who works with COVID-19 patients, voted for the first time.

I didn’t vote for anyone," Fisher said. "The things President Trump said he would do, he has done.

Fisher said he voted for the first time in 2000 but became disillusioned with politics, which took a backseat to his school and work life.

Fisher also said he didn't feel as if his vote in Massachusetts mattered because of the Electoral College, but his views on that later changed.

The New England Journal of Medicine published an editorial earlier this month condemning Trump and his administration for their response to the pandemic and, for the first time in it's 208-year history, called for current leadership to be voted out of office.

Four years ago, the board urged readers not to vote for Trump but stopped short of an outright endorsement of Hillary Clinton, the Democratic nominee.

Jeffrey Baker, 63, said he "can't stand Trump." He never voted until the primaries in 2020.

His brother, Alan Baker, 64, hadn't voted since 1984. "I was young, dumb, I was more worried about having more fun than I was worried about the vote," the elder Baker said.

Both men served in the Marines, and Jeffrey Baker said he felt apolitical for years with his military background.

Celebrities are joining in, too. Former NBA star Shaquille O’Neal, 48, said he had never voted until recently completing an absentee ballot. He also participated in a virtual rally to support Democratic candidate Joe Biden.

Former Major League Baseball pitcher David Wells, 57, announced in a video posted to Twitter Wednesday that he voted for the first time this election, for Trump.

are of voting age but cannot vote because of a prior felony conviction, according to the Sentencing Project, a D.C.-based research and advocacy center

"Once Trump became president, then I couldn't wait" to regain eligibility and vote, he said

While he said he felt good when filling in his absentee ballot, he still has concerns about the election given the concern many have raised about mail-in voting

Hoffman is not registered with a political party and did not vote in the primary, but she said she plans to vote for Trump because she favors his tax and foreign policies

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