2020 Absentee/Early Voting megathread 2

[Bojack Horseman]

Did Wayne County seriously have  higher turnout in 2018 than in 2016 and 2012? That doesn’t sound right.

Not even close. There were 658k votes for Senate in Wayne in 2018 vs. 783k votes for President in Wayne in 2016 (and 818k in 2012). Hard to imagine Detroit went the opposite direction of the rest of Wayne County by such an extreme degree. I assume they just have bad data.

I can’t imagine that in 2020 with record-shattering turnout that Detroit will only be at 50%.

[Bojack Horseman]

Sorry for the double post, but do we know if Wisconsin and Michigan are going to start canvasing mail in ballots on election day morning?

I believe they changed the law so that only the largest cities in Michigan can begin counting a couple days beforehand but I’m not sure.

[Bojack Horseman]

Correction:

The law, which passed out of the Republican-controlled legislature and was signed by the Democratic governor, allows election clerks whose jurisdiction contains at least 25,000 people to start processing — but not counting — mail ballots for 10 hours on Nov. 2, the day before Election Day. Previously, Michigan election officials had to wait until Election Day to start processing mail ballots, which are expected to comprise a much bigger share of the vote this year.