Early voters sweeping the U.S.

A key strategy for both campaigns this week is the prospect of swaying early voters.

Even before Election Day, records have been set in these years, presidential race officials are reporting record turned out an early voting with many locations extending hours to handle the numbers.

NBC’s Kerry Sanders has been watching a long line team in Florida today; he joins us now from outside Orlando. Kerry good evening!

Good evening, Lester. It is unprecedent of the line here three hours’ long. It will continue well into the night. Nationwide, it’s estimated 30%, that’s 40 million voters will have cast their votes early.

By the time the sun was up lining at some Florida early voting site extended three hours, and the way only got longer. Still, five-hour-long lines turned few voters away.

The line is this long on Saturday, that gonna be terrible on Tuesday. In this battleground, states estimated more than 3 million voters have already cast ballots. 30% of all is register voters.

Both parties here acknowledge more Democrats than Republicans have voted early. “The McCain supporters are little more quiet with how they support him. So you definitely can’t draw an conclusion from that, cause that’s just inaccurate, it doesn’t say anything about who’s voting for who.”

More than 30 states have early voting, experts say at this rate, one in three voters will have cast their choices before Tuesday’ from Georgia, the South Carolina to across the nation. Election observers say this year’s early voters are decidedly younger and African American.

“That’s worth the wait, if I had to wait all day long, if I had to wait two days, I still will wait.”

With lining this long, a good question maybe why not just use an absentee ballot, stick it in an envelop and mail it in, here in Florida voters say, because humanism in the past have caused some absentee ballots to be missed. They wanna to stand in line no matter how long to make sure their votes are counted. Lester.

Kerry Sanders in Florida, now Kerry ,thank you.