The absentee/early vote thread

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https://countyballotfiles.elections.myflorida.com/FVRSCountyBallotReports/AbsenteeEarlyVotingReports/PublicStats

Republican 503,632   
Democrat 483,019   
Other 31,507   
NPA 188,191

What's the official party line as for why this is happening?

Are you dense or something? It's all relative. That's like saying IA is solid D because they're ahead in raw early vote, even though they're underperforming 2012.

I was led to believe that this was an improvement from 2012.

That also included early in person voting, which began today in most counties in Florida those #'s aren't out yet.  Early in person voting started slightly later in Florida in 2012, but the day early voting began the GOP had a 66k absentee lead in returned ballot (about 5%), this year it is 2%.

http://miamiherald.typepad.com/nakedpolitics/2012/10/with-16m-floridians-having-voted-dems-cut-gop-absentee-vote-lead-in-half-in-1st-early-vote-day.html

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As polls closed at 6 p.m., more than 63,000 people had turned out for the first day of early voting, shattering the previous record of 47,093 set on day one of early voting in 2012.


Harris County, TX

Jesus.

Travis might be interesting.....

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What is the best link to see the N.C data breakout?   

The only thing I see on the B.O.E website links to a massive excel file

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IIRC early voting was NOT available in any Florida counties on the Sunday before Election Day in 2012, this year it isn't available in the entire state, but is in pretty much all the heavily populated counties