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As of 7:43am ET Thursday morning, more than 60 million early votes had been cast in the 2024 Presidential Election. This number has been steadily increasing all week; when I interviewed Andrea Hailey, the CEO of Vote.org (the nation’s largest nonpartisan voter engagement organization) on Tuesday, the number of early votes was 50 million.

“These narratives about apathy and exhaustion are not true. People are showing up and wanting to participate,” Hailey told me, noting that for women in particular, the rollback of reproductive rights has been a motivating factor in voting. Polling supports Hailey’s observations: According to an October 11 KFF survey, four in ten (39%) female voters under the age of 30 said abortion is the most important issue to their vote in the presidential election.

Ten states this cycle have abortion-specific ballot measures, too; to learn if your state is one of them, check out this Forbes explainer here. We also have a terrific breakdown of where tax is on the ballot: Senior writer and tax attorney Kelly Phillips Erb has everything you need to know about state-specific proposals involving property tax refunds, exempting diapers from state taxes, state revenue from sports betting taxes, and more. And Forbes contributor A.J. Herrington has a look at a Massachusetts ballot measure that will ask voters about legalizing........

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