BOSTON (AP) - Good weather, a historic presidential race and weighty ballot questions triggered a record Election Day turnout in Massachusetts.

While final numbers were still being tallied Wednesday, ballots cast for all the candidates for president already put the number of voters who made it to the polls at more than 3 million.

That bests the record 2.93 million ballots cast in the 2004 presidential race, when native son John Kerry was running for president.

Secretary of State William Galvin's office said Tuesday's final tally could climb higher when voters who cast ballots overseas, who wrote in a candidate for president or who left that section blank are included.