2020 Absentee/Early Voting thread

[JerryArkansas]

As has been pointed out, a lot of the focus on absentee ballot rejection rates fails to take into account the number of people who would otherwise not have voted at all, and the rejection rate of people that try to vote/would try to vote in person.

And it doesn't change whenever someone fixes their ballot. 

[JerryArkansas]

https://twitter.com/timelywriter/status/1309246909144539136

Just one day? I mean I guess it's better than nothing but at least 3 days would've been better

At least they'll have a buildup of results to release on election day as polls close. 

[JerryArkansas]

The people that are voting now and so early are the ones who are most determined and who made their choice already 4 years ago when Trump got elected.

This doesn’t mean anything about the larger bulk of voters later on, for turnout or if Trump wins or not ...

How many times are you going to say the same thing here?

Those are service posts, so people (also first-time voters and new to the process of elections) get the context.

At this point they are becoming spam.

[JerryArkansas]

For any of our Texas posters, when can we expect today's turnout numbers to be released? Later tonight or tomorrow?

IIRC from 2016 and 2018 I think its posted on the Secretary of States website early the next morning.

[JerryArkansas]

So Harris county doubled the 2016 early vote, while Dallas did LESS? Why the big difference

Maybe (I am not sure) they are including mail in votes in their count, while if you include mail in votes in dallas' count you get well over 80k?

Nope they definitely aren't.  When did Dallas close?

[JerryArkansas]

Over 21k in Bexar County today and over 2k in Cameron County, both per their county clerk websites. Both records for Sundays.

Sounds like Bexar had a voting drive today.

[JerryArkansas]

Here in Arkansas, at least 33912 voted yesterday early.