The Official Absentee & Early Voting Reports Thread

[Adam Griffin]

In Virginia, 18-25 year-olds currently comprise 22% of all early votes cast.

Apparently there was no in-person voting in Virginia in 2008. There were 200,679 mail-in ballots cast in Virginia in 2008. As of now it stands at 200,810. There have been around 136,000 mail-in ballots already received, with another 65,000 or so in-person early votes cast.

Source: elections.gmu.edu

[Adam Griffin]

Fulton County, GA:

2008 Average Early Voters Per Day: 3,300
2012 Average Early Voters Per Day (10/13-10/22 @ 11:30 AM): 7,600

 

[Adam Griffin]

VA

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http://www.vpap.org/updates/show/1094

I hope there is some sort of explanation.

Actually, I can't find one. Last time around, you could only vote absentee via mail in Virginia. This year though, they instituted early in-person voting as well. About 506,000 people voted in total during the 2008 early voting period in Virginia - all via mail; right now, it's 254,000, but there have only been 85,000 returned ballots via mail. I see the 18-25 demographic lost its dominance among early voters (was around 22% last week, now it's 13%).

[Adam Griffin]

Georgia had approximately 300,000 people vote early between 11:30 yesterday - 11:30 today. This brings the total share of the vote to just under 1.5 million (1,478,546). While I haven't been recording the daily numbers, I believe this is the biggest one-day turnout so far - even bigger than last Saturday.

One and a half more days of this turnout and Georgia will be close to hitting its 2008 early voting total (2,020,839). What's even better is that this is being done with a much shorter voting period this year (45 days in 2008, 21 days in 2012).

[Adam Griffin]

Excellent:

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Cherokee County, GA 2008: 93,973 voters; 74.8% McCain

If turnout is this bad in just a few of these Republican bastions, it could seriously make a difference. A drop in Cherokee from 95,000 to 75,000 would come very close to being a 10% reduction in the total 2008 margin.

[Adam Griffin]

Update: I went through the latest release of raw data and extracted the results from some of the largest and/or more interesting Georgia counties thus far.

As of 11:30 AM 11/1/12:

Fulton - 142,958
Dekalb - 132,316
Cobb - 93,977
Gwinnett - 85,036
Henry - 52,362
Clayton - 45,335
Cherokee - 42,481
Chatham - 31,681
Richmond - 30,139
Muscogee - 29,817
Douglas - 26,098
Hall - 22,809
Bibb - 21,669
Newton - 21,617
Lowndes - 20,157
Clarke - 16,142
Floyd - 12,638
Whitfield - 9,488

5-County Metro ATL Total: 499,632
Georgia Total: 1,478,546

[Adam Griffin]

[quote]Early voting in Georgia concluded on Friday. The most surprising number: Without an overt campaign in this state on behalf of President Barack Obama, African-American turnout for early voting matched the 2008 rate, at 34 percent of all advanced ballots cast./quote]

http://blogs.ajc.com/political-insider-jim-galloway/2012/11/05/black-voters-cast-more-than-one-third-of-1-9-million-early-georgia-ballots/

2008 Early Vote:

White: 60.4%
Black: 34.9%
Other: 4.7%

2012 Early Vote:

White: 59.0%
Black: 33.7%
Other: 7.3%