Election Day is tomorrow, but the polls will be or could be less crowded.

After hundreds of thousands of Kentuckians took advantage of early voting on Sunday, Secretary of State Michael Adams posted on X, formerly known as Twitter, that close to 800,000 Kentuckians have already voted in the 2024 General election.

He says that includes the absentee ballots received so far, along with in-person excused absentee voting and early voting.

Friday saw the highest number of early voters, with almost 230,000 turning out to cast their ballots.

Thursday had the second highest with more than 225,000, and Saturday numbers dropped to 200,000.

More than three and a half million Kentuckians are eligible to vote in the general election, according to the Kentucky State Board of Elections.

Of those who voted early, Adams posted, 52% were Republicans, 40% Democrats, and 7% were registered independents.

Adams also congratulated Anderson County, saying it topped all counties in early voting, with 41% of its registered voters casting their ballots.

Second place went to Bullitt County with 34%.

Robust early voting turnout could signal a better than usual overall voter turnout, says Kentucky Secretary of State Michael Adams.

He talked about his expectations for tomorrow when he visited our studios at the end of last week.

So it's a little early to predict, but my gut is that we'll have about 5% absentee, about 30% early, and about 65% Election Day.

So I think the lines will be longer in terms of more people voting on Election Day relative to 2020 and 2020, 27%, roughly, of the electorate voted on Election Day.

The rest voted absentee or early.

But to put that in perspective, we only had a few hundred voting locations on Election Day 2020 because of COVID.

Now we have most of our precincts open.

I think they're all open in Jefferson.

They're open in Fayette, they're largely open elsewhere.

We have voting centers, so we have a much better array of places for people to vote.

So the line shouldn't be problematic is my expectation.

What is your expectation for overall turnout for this general election cycle?

I think it will be a tick above where we were in 2020.

Nationally, 2020 was the highest turnout since 1908 was pretty, pretty significant.

I think it'll be higher national I'm not ready to make a projection yet, but I think we'll be higher than we were.

We had 2.1 million voters vote at that time.

I think will be higher than that.

Talk about the registration numbers that you often put out about where we are trending when it comes to Republican, Democrat or independent, which seems to be a pretty fast growing population when it comes to the electorate.

Well, the Democratic Party is hemorrhaging voters pretty consistently.

There are occasional months where they might muster a net gain of a few hundred here or there, but otherwise they lose hundreds or thousands every single month.

Republicans consistently grow by a pretty good clip, but the biggest growth is with the independents and others, especially among the youngest voters.

The first time voters.

They don't want to belong to either party.

And so we've got two parties and they're very much different from each other.

But really, neither is growing.

It's people in the middle who are growing.