I’m not quite sure what I’m reading here. Translation please. Thanks.
Approximately 7.3% of Florida’s absentee ballots that were mailed out to voters have been returned.
Of those returned, 83,646 are from Republicans. 77,817 are from Democrats. Republicans have a lead of 5,829 in returned absentee ballots.
I’m predicting that number will grow to 123,802 by election day.
While the actual votes aren’t counted yet, submitted absentee ballots can be correlated with the submittor’s party affiliation. Significantly more republicans are submitting early votes than democrats, implying Trump is probably winning.
Registered Dems in FL routinely vote in a high proportion for Republicans. But Dems are hoping for an advantage this election because of the number of vote-by-mail requests from ‘Hispanic areas’.
There is also the misleading use of the term ‘absentee ballots’, which has morphed this year in FL to ‘vote by mail’.
http://dos.myflorida.com/elections/for-voters/voting/absentee-voting/
I’d say nothing conclusive can be drawn from these numbers. They’re fodder for wishful thinking.