Sunday, November 02, 2008

Early Voting Big in NC and Florida


This information comes from the Early Voting Information Center
In Florida:
The partisan differences in Florida's early in-person returns are still pretty clear. Democrats have now reached the 1,000,000 mark; Republicans have returned just 600,000 in-person ballots.
In North Carolina:
All the same, early turnout has (at least) doubled from the last presidential election, to 2.35 million ballots cast. As of late Friday evening, the early turnout from this election was 66% of the total turnout from 2004.
In Georgia:
A quick Georgia update. The state has had huge turnout for its early in-person ("advance") voting this year. Despite the voting period being relatively short (just one week) nearly 1.4 million in-person votes have been cast—that's 25% of registered voters. It's also a 100% increase on last year, when just 670,000 voters cast their ballots early.

In Nevada:
Democratic early turnout is around 75% higher than Republicans' level. As we've mentioned before, Clark and Washoe counties include Las Vegas and Reno, and account for nearly 90% of the state's population.