While Tuesday, March 3 is the day set aside for voting in Minnesota’s first presidential primary in decades, some residents are ahead of the game.

According to the Carlton County auditor’s office, more than 500 Carlton County residents have already cast their vote in the Minnesota presidential primary via a combination of mail-in and absentee ballots. Earlier this week, Minnesota Public Radio wrote that close to 40,000 Minnesotans have already voted.

Local residents who received mail-in ballots or absentee ballots have through March 2 to get their ballots in, although those who haven’t already...