The absentee/early vote thread

[Sorenroy]

Well, early voting from that Old North site show Democrats holding longer than in 2012.



Also, while the Democrats and Unaffiliateds are ahead of their 2012 numbers, Republicans are lagging behind.

[Sorenroy]

Update with New Graphic for NC:



Also, question: why and how did the total Republican ballots accepted in 2012 decrease between day 38 and 37?

Edit: nevermind, I guess it just didn't change.

[Sorenroy]

NC absentee ballot requests as of 9/28:

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Even though Republicans now lead with requests, Democrats still hold a roughly 500 vote lead in returned ballots:


Source

Note that it is the first day that 2016 Dems lag behind 2012 Repubs.

[Sorenroy]

http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/data-points/why-early-get-out-vote-efforts-favor-clinton-ballot-requests-n653361

In North Carolina/Pennsylvania, 18-29 are a higher % of ballot requests than 30-44 #GroundGame.

However, as TN Volunteer's post shows, that is not reflected (yet) in returned ballots (at least in NC):

NC absentee ballot requests as of 9/28:

[Sorenroy]

Of the ballot requests, for those that didn't vote in 2012, 19% are Democrats, 16% Republicans.

Actually, what this shows is that 16% of the total number of Republicans who requested these ballots for 2016 did not vote in 2012, rather than that 16% of ballot requests from people who didn't vote in 2012 are Republican (same goes for the other two, I just chose Republicans as my example).