He urged his voters to "knock 'em out with volume of votes".
The balloting, on Facebook and other social media sites, was shut down almost immediately because of the sheer volume of votes and suspicions that hackers were skewing the results.
The volume of votes at Wednesday's annual meeting in Charlotte, N.C., was so heavy there is a delay in reporting the results.
It may be tough for Democrats to match their 2012 early vote margin given the volume of votes already cast.
An unofficial estimate puts the announcement between 6.30am and 7.30am, but given the volume of people voting – over four million ballots to be counted – it may be much later on the Friday that we learn the precise result.
Participants thus entered the second round of voting.
After this discussion, the revised statements were uploaded to the electronic voting system for a second round of voting.
The earliest ballots could be cast was in North Carolinaa, where residents could vote by mail as soon as Sept. 9. "The volume of early voting is going to be very high in a number of states," he said.
Iowa continues to be the state of most interest because of its high volume of early voting.
With this understanding, it was not surprising to see dramatic increases in the volume of early voting.
