LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- Election Day is Nov. 5, but many people throughout the country and Kentuckiana are already casting their votes. Early voting in Indiana started earlier this month, and it begins for many in Kentucky on Oct. 23. 

Casting a ballot early has become a popular option for voters across the country.

"My big message for the next two weeks is to beg and plead with voters to, please, if you can, vote early, because I don't want lines on election day," said Kentucky Secretary of State Michael Adams. 

Here are the options for voters in the commonwealth.

Tuesday, Oct. 22, was the last day to request a mail-in absentee ballot. Those have to be mailed back by 6 p.m. on election night. Kentucky officials said the state has already received 121,000 requests for absentee ballots — 40,000 more than the last presidential election.

"That's a massive number," Adams said, "and if that number represents two or four percent of total votes to be cast, we're going to have millions of people voting in this election."

In-person, excused absentee voting in Kentucky began Oct. 23. The polls were open until Oct. 25, and then again from Oct. 28-30. 

Anyone else who wants to vote early can do so — at any location listed below in their home county — from Oct. 31 to Nov. 2.  

To see a full list of locations statewide, click here for Kentucky and here for Indiana.

"Make a plan before you vote," Adams said. "That includes being informed about who you're voting for and what you're voting on."

In Indiana, early voting has been underway since Oct. 8th, and officials said traffic is really starting to pick up, and thousands of people have already voted.

"So far we have over 8,809 people in a nine-day window," Floyd Count Clerk Danita Burks said. "So, for a county of about 55,000-plus voters, that's a good start."

It was busy but efficient at the Floyd County voting center WDRB visited on Tuesday. 

"You come in and usually there's no line at all," said Paige Froman, who was there to cast her vote. "It's pretty much simple and easy."

In Indiana, mail-in ballots must be requested by Oct. 24. And in-person early voting continues through Nov. 4.

"We have a great community here, and I think everybody just wants to get in, vote and get out," Burks said. 

Election Day is Nov. 5. 

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