Early in-person voting for New Jersey starts on Saturday, but already more than a half million votes have been cast in the Garden State. State data shows 538,000 mail-in votes had been returned, representing close to one in 10 of the state’s 6.65 million registered voters. Another 535,000 mail-in ballots requested so far remained outstanding.

So far, the majority of mailed ballots came from registered Democrats – 61% — compared with 21% from Republicans and 18% from unaffiliated voters.

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