Nearly 60 million Americans cast early vote as record-shattering turnout expected

Their enthusiasm reflected in post boxes stuffed with mail-in ballots and by hours-long queues at voting sites across the country, by early Sunday almost 60 million Americans had cast a vote in the presidential election, even as the candidates scrambled to deliver their closing message more than a week before election day, 3 November. The vast numbers of early voters in the most consequential election in generations is fuelling what promises to…