Even with all of the added convenience and easier opportunities to cast ballots, turnout not only doesn't increase with early voting, it actually falls.
Many political analysts also cast the turnout as a passionate grass-roots cry for change, at a time when Italians are particularly angry at their leaders.
With 10 states and territories still to vote, perhaps another six million votes could be cast if turnout is very high, by the count of Ben Smith at Politico.com.
No one is turned away for not being on the list, no provisional ballots need be cast, and turnout in these states was 9percentt higher than the national average in the last presidential election.
The vote count is clear and stunning: of just over 280 votes cast, (59% turnout) each of the incumbents was recalled with at least 63% in favor and each of the anti-Blackwater (pro-Potrero) candidates received no less than 71% of the votes.
The United States Election Project, which is run by a political science professor at University of Florida, had a more conservative estimate of 111.7 million votes cast, with a turnout rate of 47.4percentthethighestesturnoutut in a midterm election since 1970).
While more than 3 million votes have been cast early, black turnout is down from where it was in 2012, while white turnout has surged more than 300,000 as compared with the last election.
Some 24,024 votes were cast - a turnout of 28.24 per cent.
In the event, Mr Gasparovic unexpectedly won, with 60% of the votes cast, on a turnout of just 43.5%.
Only about a quarter of the five million eligible voters cast ballots, a turnout that apparently undermined Mr. Mugabe's strength in the countryside.
