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Harris County (Houston) early voting turnout in 2024 falls short of 2020 record by more than 80,000
https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org ^ | Nov 4, 2024

Posted on 11/04/2024 5:09:10 PM PST by 11th_VA

More than 1.2 million Harris County residents took part in early voting this year, falling shy of 2020's record turnout of approximately 1.4 million.

According to the Texas Secretary of State’s unofficial results, 1,176,426 people voted in person across Harris County during early voting. As of the final day of early voting, Nov. 1, 53,500 had also already voted via mail, making for a total of 1,229,926 ballots cast during early voting.

This is the second-highest number of ballots ever cast during early voting in Harris County. 2020 still holds the record with 1,265,405 in-person ballots and 171,247 mail-in ballots cast during early voting. That's approximately 88,000 more in-person voters and 117,000 more mail-in ballots than in 2024.

Overall early voter turnout amongst registered voters was also lower this year compared to 2020. In 2020, 57.92% of Harris County's 2.4 million registered voters voted during early voting while this year only 45.67% of the nearly 2.7 million registered voters voted early, according to the secretary of state's office.

One possible reason behind the dip is that there were only two weeks of early voting this year while 2020 had three weeks to accommodate for the COVID pandemic. Since the 2020 election, new state voter ID laws have also gone into effect, reducing the amount of voters eligible to receive a mail-in ballot.

On Monday, Harris County Clerk Teneshia Hudspeth released a statement and said that some of the statistics on the number of voters at specific early voting centers may be inaccurate due to a spreadsheet error…

(Excerpt) Read more at houstonpublicmedia.org ...


TOPICS: Politics/Elections; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: election; harriscounty; houston; texas
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The trend is our friend
1 posted on 11/04/2024 5:09:10 PM PST by 11th_VA
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To: 11th_VA

Yay.

Stay at home
and doncha roam.
You don’t need no ballot box.
Watching TV is what really rocks.


2 posted on 11/04/2024 5:12:33 PM PST by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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To: 11th_VA

Yeah, the real big question is election day turnout. It seems that Dems are fried. Dems expected a 50k boost in PA mail and got 2k.

There’s no enthusiasm and the die-hards voted already.


3 posted on 11/04/2024 5:12:43 PM PST by struggle
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To: 11th_VA

GA::Early vote for black voters in Columbus, GA is 80% of 2020 and for GOP leaning voters in the Columbus suburbs, it is 110% of 2020. Similar story across the state. Black voters just didn’t vote early at a sufficient rate… - From X


4 posted on 11/04/2024 5:13:11 PM PST by 11th_VA
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To: 11th_VA

80,000 fake votes didn’t show up.


5 posted on 11/04/2024 5:14:17 PM PST by bray (It's not racist to be racist against races the DNC hates.)
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To: 11th_VA

Since the 2020 election, new state voter ID laws have also gone into effect, reducing the amount of voters eligible to receive a mail-in ballot.
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Gee , That’s too bad


6 posted on 11/04/2024 5:14:54 PM PST by janetjanet998 (Legacy media including youtube are the enemy of the people and must die)
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To: 11th_VA
number of voters at specific early voting centers may be inaccurate due to a spreadsheet error…

can't use Excel?
7 posted on 11/04/2024 5:20:54 PM PST by BigEdLB ( Let’s go Brandon)
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To: BigEdLB

Calculators still work if spreadsheets are too confusing.


8 posted on 11/04/2024 5:24:29 PM PST by skr (Righteousness exalteth a nation: sin is a reproach to any people. - Proverbs 14:34)
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To: 11th_VA

In 2020 a lot of states sent mail in ballots to all voters and encouraged voters to early vote. This year most states have gone back to only sending mail in ballots by request only. This will weed out a lot of the “lazy” low information voters that only voted in 2020 because they received a ballot in the mail and their liberal friends hassled them about returning it (or in many cases, I’m guessing, took the ballot and filled it out themselves).


9 posted on 11/04/2024 5:28:38 PM PST by apillar
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To: struggle

Hard core Democrat urban precinct captains are going to have no choice but to pull out those dusty old boxes of empty ballots and cast them—for Joe Biden.

Will there be some of them dumb enough to do this?

We will know soon enough!


10 posted on 11/04/2024 5:29:54 PM PST by cgbg ("Our democracy" = Their Kleptocracy)
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To: bray

nail on head


11 posted on 11/04/2024 5:32:13 PM PST by pissant ((Deport 'em all))
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To: struggle
There’s no enthusiasm and the die-hards voted already.

There's only one option left.

Cheat.

12 posted on 11/04/2024 5:33:47 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
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To: MinorityRepublican

There are plenty of old boxes of Biden ballots still available.

I will be lol if some network shows massive votes for Biden tomorrow night.


13 posted on 11/04/2024 5:35:14 PM PST by cgbg ("Our democracy" = Their Kleptocracy)
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To: skr

LOL - Good point


14 posted on 11/04/2024 5:44:48 PM PST by BigEdLB ( Let’s go Brandon)
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To: frank ballenger

In Harris County low show for mail in is more likely a sign that the Democrats are not so enthusiastic. Houston is a Democrat city.


15 posted on 11/04/2024 5:50:17 PM PST by arthurus (covfefe hap)
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To: 11th_VA

It’s a trend and strict ID requirements.

Harris County is beyond corrupt.


16 posted on 11/04/2024 6:14:49 PM PST by TheThirdRuffian (Orange is the new brown)
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To: 11th_VA

Someone is monkeying with the numbers:

Wednesday Oct 30 at HCC 610 loop easily 2,500 voters entered that voting center by all accounts and this morning Harris County Central Count adjusted that number to 711?

Over 60 daily totals shifted from heavy “Republican” polling locations to heavy “Democrat” polling locations.

We want answers.

https://twitter.com/josephltrahan/status/1853501709227897206?s=46


17 posted on 11/04/2024 6:21:41 PM PST by packagingguy
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To: TheThirdRuffian
Harris County is beyond corrupt.

Harris County is going through an identity crisis.

Sheila Jackson Lee died, the Whitmire clan regained control of the mayor's office, Lina Hidalgo is going through a slow-motion nervous breakdown, and Democrat DA Kim Ogg endorsed Ted Cruz for the Senate.

-PJ

18 posted on 11/04/2024 6:22:42 PM PST by Political Junkie Too ( * LAAP = Left-wing Activist Agitprop Press (formerly known as the MSM))
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To: 11th_VA

I hear Dallas County was also down big.


19 posted on 11/04/2024 6:44:04 PM PST by Zathras
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To: 11th_VA

Not only that, but we have reason to believe that an unusually high percentage of blacks that are showing up are voting Trump.


20 posted on 11/04/2024 6:57:55 PM PST by Dan in Wichita
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