Posted on 10/30/2020 7:35:11 AM PDT by Coronal
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texans have already cast more ballots in the presidential election than they did during all of 2016, an unprecedented surge of early voting in a state that was once the country’s most reliably Republican, but may now be drifting toward battleground status.
More than 9 million ballots have been cast as of Friday morning in the nation’s second most-populous state, exceeding the 8,969,226 cast in 2016, according to an Associated Press tally of early votes from data provided by Texas officials.
Texas is the first state to hit the milestone. This year’s numbers were aided by Democratic activists challenging in court for, and winning, the right to extend early voting by one week amid the coronavirus pandemic.
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And hoping some of the Dems are still moderate and sees what they far left is trying to do to their party!
since Texas doesn’t register by party, how is party ID determined? Are they looking at people who voted in a party primary and calling them an R or a D, as the case may be?
That seems to make sense, but just curious
“This year’s numbers were aided by Democratic activists challenging in court for, and winning, the right to extend early voting by one week amid the coronavirus pandemic.”
How is that at all possible at this point as the Election Day is still in the Future?
Texas isn’t going blue this time around. Count on it!
978,908 people living in Austin, TX as of the last census.
So far, 2.4M of them have early voted...
I suspect by election night that ballots cast will exceed Texas population
I did my part a couple of days ago.
What does the “T” stand for?
I am a SuperVoter, along with my wife, and will be voting on Tuesday as normal here in north central Texas. My county was 83 - 15 Trump in 2016. That win margin was disappointingly low, and I’m hoping we can get that number up this time!
Based on what I have seen with my own eyes and from stories from Latino GOP GOTV folks, I agree.
Lefties wouldn't have much reason to "vote with their feet," would they?
Is this further evidence of the enthusiasm gap for Biteme Biden?
Here’s an interesting site (click on each state):
https://data.tallahassee.com/early-voting-turnout/
A state I know something about is Oregon. Some points of interest:
1. Oregon has had mail-in ballots for a long time, so they are experienced at vote-by-mail. (Didn’t need to develop a new system; didn’t need to educate voters on “how to.”)
2. Oregon is reliably BLUE. The left half of the state has the bulk of the population, and obviously everyone knows of radical left PORTLAND. The right side of the state is rural, RED, but low population.
3. As of Oct. 29, Oregon has only returned 82.6% the number of ballots returned in EV (early voting) in 2016:
2020 is 82.6% to 2016 voting levels
2020 Early Voting Total
(as of Oct. 29, 2020) 1,695,010
2016 Early Voting Total 2,051,452
This could mean....
A reliably Democrat population, who is experienced in mailing ballots, and has been told by Dems for weeks to “get your ballots in early”.... is 17.4% BEHIND their return-rate from 2016.
How many are (1) from nursing homes (including their recent dead) & where the staff fills out the ballots for mentally incompetent residents, (2) people dead for 1 year and whose names never removed from the rolls, and the current resident fills out the ballot for them (3) ballots sent to usual non-voters (can be found in some databases) and obtained in “ballot harvesting & filled out by the ballot harvester, and (4) newly registered voters who are also voting absentee in another state. You can rely on the Dims to use every one of those fraudulent techniques.
These are rather shocking numbers.
“I think Latino vote here will be strong for Trump.”
Except in the counties along the Rio Grande.
U series?
...”Total”
Do you think California's Lefties enjoy the utopias of homeless drug addicts that they've created? They most certainly do not. So they'll blame President Trump, move somewhere else, and bring their voting habits with them.
I saw lefty newcomers turn Colorado into a solid-blue Democrat safe-haven. They can do the same to Texas.
I doubt it. I have several ultra-lib friends that have moved to Texas from California since the last election and hope to utopia (ruin) Texas too.
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