Alcon's all-purpose EARLY VOTING & REGISTRATION thread

[Dan the Roman]

I tried posting this in its own thread but limited interest. You can get the latest on the Georgia early voting numbers on the SOS site.

http://sos.georgia.gov/elections/earlyvotingstats08.htm

Right now we're up to 635,000, about 36% Black.

 Number of ballots cast: 635,798

Number of ballots voted in person: 549,310
Number of mail-in ballots returned: 86,488

Turn out Demographics:

Black Female
   142,406

Black Male
    85,779

White Female
   211,340

White Male
   173,234

Asia-PI Female
   1,342

Asia-PI Male
   1,025

Hisp-Lt Female
   1,769

Hisp-Lt Male
   1,396

Native AM Female
   39

Native AM Male
   50

Other
   17,418

Total
   635,798

Top 5 Counties in turn out:
1.    Dekalb:    63,788
2.    Fulton:    45,681
3.    Gwinnett:    34,920
4.    Cobb:              34,638
5.    Chatham:    19,275

[Dan the Roman]

Blacks had a really good day yesterday in Georgia, made up close to 38% of early voters, and pushed their overall figure up to 36.66% from 35.59%. They may have simply headed down because of bad weather in Dekalb and Fulton the last few days.