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Voters in the 48 states and DC with pre-election vote data available are already setting records as they seek to cast their ballots either by mail or in-person where available. 

Around 55% — more than half — of those pre-election votes come from CNN’s 16 most competitively-ranked states, which will most likely determine who will win the presidency next month. 

The 50 million ballots cast so far represents more than 36% of the more than 136 million total ballots cast in the 2016 presidential election. Some voter information comes from Catalist, a company that provides data, analytics and other services to Democrats, academics and nonprofit issue-advocacy organizations and is giving new insights into who is voting before November.