Does this mean on election night we will see an initial wave of Democrat votes, because the VBM has already been counted?
In 2016, we were looking mostly at early vote tallies as the polls started closing. And it was like a wake around here. It wasn't until around 9:30pm that the election day vote tallies started pouring in and that's when the celebrations started. Cautiously at first, but by midnight, sobriety was in short supply on Free Republic.
I actually expect a quicker night this time around. I think we will find that the GOP will have done a pretty good job matching the Dems in early votes so the election day votes will just be icing on the cake.
In fact in Florida yesterday (first day of IPEV), the Republicans actually beat the Democrats in early voting. I think the Republicans are ahead in Michigan as well with regard to early votes.