Early voting surge: 600,000 mail-in ballots already cast in Pennsylvania
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Voting by mail has been extremely popular among Americans participating this year's the 2022 midterm elections.
More than 15 million people have voted already in the 2022 midterms, breaking records from previous midterm years with one week until Election Day.
Here's how to track and see whether your absentee ballot has been counted:
Alabama voters can check the status of their absentee ballots online by entering their voter information at https://myinfo.alabamavotes.gov/voterview.
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Alaska voters can check the status of their absentee ballots online at https://myvoterinformation.alaska.gov/.
Voters who chose to keep their residential addresses private can contact an Elections Regional Office to get more information about their mail-in ballots.
A voter places a ballot in an election voting drop box in Mesa, Ariz., Friday, Oct. 28, 2022. (Ross D. Franklin)
Arizona voters can confirm the status of their absentee ballots online at https://my.arizona.vote/AbsenteeTracker.aspx.
Voters in Arkansas can see if their mail-in ballots were accepted online at https://www.voterview.ar-nova.org/voterview.
California offers online absentee-ballot tracking at https://california.ballottrax.net/voter.
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Voters in Colorado can see whether their absentee ballots have been processed at https://colorado.ballottrax.net/voter/.
Connecticut voters can check the processing status of their absentee ballots online at https://portaldir.ct.gov/sots/LookUp.aspx.
A Michigan voter inserts her absentee voter ballot into a drop box in Troy, Mich on Oct. 15, 2020. (Paul Sancya)
Voters in Delaware can check the status of their absentee ballots online at https://ivote.de.gov/VoterView.
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Washington, D.C., voters can see if their absentee ballots were counted online at https://votedc.ballottrax.net/voter/.
Voters in Florida can check their voting status at https://registration.elections.myflorida.com/CheckVoterStatus.
Georgia offers online mail-in ballot tracking at https://mvp.sos.ga.gov/s/.
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Voters in Hawaii can see if their County Elections Division received their mail-in ballots online at https://ballotstatus.hawaii.gov/ballotreceipt.
Idaho voters can check the status of their absentee ballots online at https://elections.sos.idaho.gov/ElectionLink/ElectionLink/VoterSearch.aspx.
Some Illinois counties and the city of Chicago allow voters to see whether their mail-in ballots were accepted online, but the state itself does not have a digital statewide ballot-tracking tool.
Illinois voters should search online for their specific counties to see whether they can track ballots online or if they have to call their local election authorities for ballot status information.
A U.S. mail truck believed to be carrying 43 absentee ballots caught fire in southwest Georgia on Monday. (Baker County Sheriffs Office)
To check the status of Indiana absentee ballots online, voters must log in to their voter portals at https://indianavoters.in.gov/MVPHome/PrintDocuments.
Iowa offers online absentee-ballot tracking at https://sos.iowa.gov/elections/absenteeballotstatus/absentee/search.
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Voters in Kansas can track the status of their mail-in ballots at https://myvoteinfo.voteks.org/voterview.
Kentucky voters can see whether their absentee ballots have been accepted through an online voter portal at https://vrsws.sos.ky.gov/VIC/.
Louisiana offers absentee-ballot tracking through online voter portals at https://voterportal.sos.la.gov/Home/VoterLogin.
Maine has an absentee-ballot tracking system at https://apps.web.maine.gov/cgi-bin/online/AbsenteeBallot/ballot_status.pl.
Maryland voters can visit the state’s voter look-up portal to check the status of their mail-in ballots at https://voterservices.elections.maryland.gov/VoterSearch.
A county worker collects mail-in ballots in a drive-thru mail-in ballot drop off area at the Clark County Election Department in Las Vegas. (John Locher)
Voters in Massachusetts can track their absentee ballots at https://www.sec.state.ma.us/wheredoivotema/track/trackmyballot.aspx.
Michigan voters can track their absentee ballots online at https://mvic.sos.state.mi.us/Voter/Index.
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Voters in Minnesota can check the status of their absentee ballots online at https://mnvotes.sos.state.mn.us/AbsenteeBallotStatus.aspx.
Mississippi does not have a digital statewide ballot tracking tool.
Voters can contact their county election authorities for ballot status information.
Missouri also does not have an online ballot-tracking tool for voters.
Voters can call their local election authorities for more information.
Montana voters can check the status of their absentee ballots on the state’s digital "My Voter Page" at https://app.mt.gov/voterinfo/.
Voters in Nebraska can see whether their absentee ballots were accepted online at https://www.votercheck.necvr.ne.gov/voterview.
Early voter turnout has continued to climb even after the passage of election "interference" bills in some states like Georgia that imposed new restrictions on absentee voting and voter I.D. requirements. (Stephen Goin)
Nevada offers an online system for voters to track their ballots at https://nevada.ballottrax.net/voter/.
Voters can opt in to text message and email alerts to get ballot tracking updates.
New Hampshire voters can conduct a mail-in ballot search online at https://app.sos.nh.gov/Public/AbsenteeBallot.aspx.
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Voters in New Jersey can track the progress of their absentee ballots online at https://www.nj.gov/state/elections/vote-track-my-ballot.shtml.
The New Jersey voter website states that "a voter's ballot status on the Tracker will be updated by each individual county. The amount of time it takes until updates are posted to the Track My Ballot tool will vary from county to county. Please check back periodically for updates to your ballot status."
New Mexico offers an online ballot tracking service at https://voterportal.servis.sos.state.nm.us/WhereToVote.aspx?tab=AbsenteeTracker.
Absentee ballots also come with Intelligent Mail Barcodes so that voters can manually search the status of the ballots, or they can contact a county clerk’s office.
Elko County Clerk Kris Jakeman examines ballots pulled from an official dropbox. (Elko Daily Free Press)
New York voters can track their mail-in ballots online at https://nysballot.elections.ny.gov/TrackMyBallot/Search.
North Carolina offers an online absentee ballot tracking service at https://northcarolina.ballottrax.net/voter/.
Votes in North Dakota can track their ballots online at https://vip.sos.nd.gov/AbsenteeTracker.aspx.
Ohio offers a county-by-county ballot tracking system at https://www.ohiosos.gov/elections/voters/toolkit/ballot-tracking/.
Voters can click on their county using an interactive map on the Ohio state secretary’s website to track their ballots.
Oklahoma voters can use the state’s online voter portal to see whether their absentee ballots have been accepted at https://okvoterportal.okelections.us/.
Voters in Oregon can track their ballots online at https://secure.sos.state.or.us/orestar/vr/showVoterSearch.do.
Pennsylvania offers an online ballot tracking tool at https://www.pavoterservices.pa.gov/pages/ballottracking.aspx.
Rhode Island voters can track absentee ballots online at https://vote.sos.ri.gov/Home/UpdateVoterRecord?ActiveFlag=3.
Voters get "I Voted" stickers after casting their ballots at the early voting location in the ballroom of the Sandy Spring Volunteer Fire Station on October 27, 2022 in Sandy Spring, Maryland. (Chip Somodevilla)
South Carolina voters can submit an absentee ballot status request form online at https://info.scvotes.sc.gov/eng/voterinquiry/VoterInformationRequest.aspx?PageMode=AbsenteeInfo.
Voters in South Dakota can track their absentee ballots online at https://vip.sdsos.gov/VIPLogin.aspx.
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Tennessee voters can see whether their absentee ballots have been accepted online at https://tnmap.tn.gov/voterlookup/.
Voters in Texas can track their ballots through an online portal at https://teamrv-mvp.sos.texas.gov/BallotTrackerApp/#/login.
Utah offers an absentee ballot tracking tool at https://votesearch.utah.gov/voter-search/search/search-by-voter/track-mail-ballot.
Vermont voters can track the status of their absentee ballots on the state’s digital voter portal at https://mvp.vermont.gov/.
Voters in Virginia can also track their absentee ballots by logging into an online voter portal at https://www.elections.virginia.gov/citizen-portal/.
A voter casts a ballot at a polling location in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on Tuesday, May 17, 2022. (Nate Smallwood/Bloomberg)
Washington offers an online ballot tracking system at https://voter.votewa.gov/WhereToVote.aspx.
West Virginia voters can track their absentee ballots online at https://services.sos.wv.gov/Elections/Voter/AbsenteeBallotTracking.
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Voters in Wisconsin can check to see whether their mail-in ballots have been accepted at https://apps.sos.wv.gov/Elections/voter/absenteeballottracking.
Wyoming voters can contact their county clerks to track their absentee ballots.
Voters can also use Google to find these online ballot-status tools by searching "track ballot" or "voting" along with the name of a state.
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Google will present links directing users more information on how to check a voter’s mail-in ballot register status, how to register to vote, how to check a voter’s registration status and request an absentee ballot.
Fox News' Audrey Conklin contributed to this report.
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