Posted on 10/11/2024 3:32:49 PM PDT by Libloather
The dramatic rise in early voting has led many to think the election might be effectively over days or weeks before Election Day. The data thus far show that won’t be true — and the numbers aren’t comforting for Democrats.
Early voting is nowhere near what some people estimated: 4.2 million Americans have already cast their ballots, per John Couvillon, a Republican political strategist who provides daily updates on early and mail voting.
That sounds like a lot, but it’s a pittance compared with the 158.6 million votes ultimately cast in 2020.
More important, it’s significantly less than this point in 2020: Early voting is down 45%, Couvillon’s numbers show.
The number of early votes will rise substantially in the next two weeks as some states send out their mail ballots and others open in-person early-voting centers. But the share of votes cast early is still likely to be much lower even after this happens.
Virginia, for example, has had in-person early voting since late September. People are coming out, as 459,000 have voted in person as of Oct. 10.
That is down roughly 4%, however, from the same point in 2020.
The bigger news is the significant decline in requests for mail ballots. Those are down by 58% from 2020 in states that don’t send mail ballots to all voters.
The drop is especially steep in the swing states of Georgia and North Carolina, with declines of 84% and 75% respectively.
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I don’t know the breakdown by party, but it was busy at the Sandoval county building when we went today. Nearly all the voting booths were in use.
When the drop boxes are mandated to be in government buildings and other restricted access and heavily monitored places, you tend not to get so many mules willing to stuff those drop boxes in the middle of the night.
Yes, something like I suggested back during the first O’Bumbler administration.
But QR codes weren’t talked about, back then...
“We’re not the same ppl we were 4 yrs ago.”
Yes, we are. Just as stupid and gullible as ever.
But with 584,200 fraudulent ballots being counted for Kamala, they invalidate 584,200 Trump Votes.
OTOH those Trump votes invalidate 584,200 Kamala fake votes.
Voted and placed in a ballot drop box at a nearby police station this afternoon. I will have an e-mailed receipt by Monday
We've had the "blue book" explaining the ballot initiatives for almost two weeks. There was plenty of time to study them and reach an informed opinion.
Candidates have been visible for the entire year. By now, everybody paying the slightest attention has already decided their votes. Advertising now is only good if it increases turnout.
I am working with what I've got.
Yes, and the locations were pre-scouted for good (dead, infirmed, moved) candidates whose ballots could be “harvested” and sent in. But that took FOUR MONTHS.
They don’t have that this time, and as we see, the OVERALL number of early ballot requests and/or returns is down geometrically.
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