Week 1 of early voting is over. Here’s where turnout stands.
More than 550,000 ballots had been accepted by the end of the first week of early voting, according to a report from the Secretary of State’s Office. This puts turnout so far at 28% of eligible registered voters, with one week of in-person early voting and Election Day still ahead. By state law, mail ballots […]
Most Republican states have made voting harder since 2020. Our research shows how successful they’ve been
In late September, the governor of the state of Oklahoma, Kevin Stitt, boasted that election officials had removed 453,000 people from the state’s voter rolls since 2021. In a state with only 2.3 million registered voters, it appears that roughly one in six registered voters had been purged. While some of these people were dead or disfranchised owing to felony convictions, nearly 200,000 of them were removed for being “inactive voters”. This means they likely failed to respond to a postcard sent to their mailing address. Voters can re-register if they were incorrectly removed, but this “voter list maintenance” process still creates...
Turnout tracker: Where ballots have been cast early in the 2024 elections
Nearly 15 million ballots have been cast nationwide in this year’s elections, even as candidates up and down the ballot work to win over undecided voters. Those statistics include in-person early votes and returned mail-in ballots, with almost 57 million ballots requested by mail. 2024 ELECTIONS LIVE UPDATES: LATEST NEWS ON THE TRUMP-HARRIS PRESIDENTIAL RACE […]
Data shows Republicans surpassing Democrats in early in-person voting
(The Center Square) — Republicans may be eclipsing Democrats in early in-person voting this year in Virginia, though Democrats appear to be outperforming Republicans in submitting mail-in ballots, according to data compiled by the nonprofit Virginia Public Access Project. Just two weeks out from the presidential election, Republicans are likely to have cast 46.5% of early in-person ballots, while Democrats likely account for 45.5%. Since Virginia “does not require voter...
Republicans running ahead in Florida voting. Democrats slightly ahead in South Florida.
Republicans are far ahead of Democrats in Florida in voting so far in the presidential election. The overwhelming Republican turnout after four days of early voting in most of Florida is besting the Democrats, who are holding their own — barely — in the Democratic strongholds of Broward and Palm Beach counties. Republican ballots cast so far are slightly ahead of Democrats in Miami-Dade ...