Absentee voters start casting ballots for elections

Election Day may be six weeks away, but voters in swing state Virginia are already marking ballots in an election that may see as many as one-third of all votes cast early.

Fairfax County, which began accepting in-person absentee votes Friday, has already accepted 244 absentee votes from the estimated 25,000 absentee voters who will cast their ballots before the Nov. 1 deadline. The city of Arlington, which began accepting in-person absentee ballots Monday, had already accepted about 75 votes before noon.