Could Early Voting Elect Donald Trump and Skew the System?

National Review ^ | March 20, 2016 | John Fund

[Trump20162020]

Arizona’s primary on Tuesday is now a “yuuge” factor in the Republican nominating process. If Donald Trump were to win even a small plurality of votes, he would win all of the state’s 58 delegates and keep his momentum going.

But the results in this important primary might be skewed. Arizona is an early-voting state, and people can cast ballots up to 26 days before the actual primary. As of last Thursday, 249,000 Republicans in Maricopa County alone (where Phoenix is located) had already cast ballots. That’s already more votes than the total cast in Maricopa in the 2012 GOP primary.

Early voting is a big advantage for Donald Trump, who tends to do very poorly among late deciders in primaries. “That banking of votes early on does help Trump tremendously, no matter what happens,” Richard Herrara, a political-science professor at Arizona State University, told the New York Post Friday. “He’s probably got a pretty sizable lead, so he’s just got to hold on.”

[libstripper]

I voted early for Trump on the last day of early voting here in TN. That violated my general rule of not voting early in GOP primaries. I normally don’t vote early in primaries because somebody I was thinking of voting for might drop.out or there might be a strategic reason for my selection that could change up to the election day. The can eat to the whole early voting thing is the early voter always runs the risk of not having all matters to consider.

[dangus]

The Rubio cover was from 2008, when Rubio was challenging Charlie Christ. The Jeb cover had nothing to do with national politics such as illegal immigration.

[dangus]

... and the Romney cover was from 2007, when Romney was challenging McCain, Giuliani and Huckabee.

Trump, of course, was bankrolling Hillary Clinton at the time.