We are at the point of the early voting calendar where I begin to run out of clever intros.
Year Mail Early Total
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2012 6,381 16,371 22,752
2016 10,970 34,419 45,389
2020 18,503 54,325 72,728
2024 10,440 47,185 57,625
2012 13,509 33,563 47,072
2016 16,433 49,692 66,125
2020 19,690 47,281 66,971
2024 4,454 57,913 62,367
As a reminder, Dem totals are on top, Republican ones on the bottom. Here are the Day Eight totals for this year, and here are the final totals from 2012, 2016, and 2020.
I don’t really have a lot to add at this point. Final total turnout in the 2012 Democratic primary was about 76K, and we’ll probably reach that on Thursday. Final early voting turnout for 2016 was about 86K, and if we don’t reach that on Thursday we’ll get there and more on Friday. Dems still have a lot of mail ballots out, I’d guess maybe 5K of them get returned by Friday, but it could be more. Overall I’d say this is going more or less as I thought it might. What do you think? Have you voted yet?