2020 Absentee/Early Voting thread

[Terry the Fat Shark]

Tomorrow, North Carolina voters who requested an absentee ballot will begin to receive their ballots. Marking the official start of the general election voting. This thread will be for posting official (or unofficial) data regarding both absentee voting and early voting, whether that be turnout reports or anything else related to it.

Links:
NYT Early voting start and end dates for all 50 states
Absentee Ballot deadlines for all 50 states
NC absentee ballot request data by day (cumulative).
Vote by mail/early vote tracker
Florida early vote tracker
Texas early vote tracker

[Terry the Fat Shark]

If anyone has any more useful links, let me know and I'll post them at the top!

[Terry the Fat Shark]

https://twitter.com/ElectProject/status/1304397586267283456

[Terry the Fat Shark]

https://public.tableau.com/profile/ckelly2528/vizhome/PollingAverages/MAIN?publish=yes#!/vizhome/VotebyMailTracker/Dashboard1
nice tool visualizing ev + mail in votes/requests

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Should be noted Tarrant and Collin counties are only up until 5 PM through Saturday.

[Terry the Fat Shark]

https://twitter.com/HarrisVotes/status/1316446216033652745
Wow. Harris county is going to have 24 hour voting on October 29th.

[Terry the Fat Shark]

Tarrant County broke the day 3 record from 2016

2016: 42,332

Now: (at least) 44,990

Polls closed at 5 PM in Tarrant County but some people are still in line.

[Terry the Fat Shark]

for more context:

https://twitter.com/zachdespart/status/1316882756815773696

[Terry the Fat Shark]

old day 4 tarrant record: 39,996
today so far in tarrant: 47,826

[Terry the Fat Shark]

Harris County is an absolute juggernaut

https://twitter.com/HarrisVotes/status/1317239801909751810?s=20

RIP Wesley Hunt

Go deeper, RIP Dan Crenshaw

[Terry the Fat Shark]

1.3mil voted in harris county so getting 400k in 4 days isn't surprising - it'll start to slow down

There's uh....3 weeks of early voting this year unlike 2 in the past, so it's pretty surprising lol. Also Harris County has 7 am to 10 pm ev the final 3 days of ev in 2 weeks and one day of 24 hour voting at 3 sites on oct 29th

[Terry the Fat Shark]

Early voted today in Tarrant County. Not much of a line at our voting site, but there were like 30 machines in the building so I'm sure that helped. The weird thing was that there were no covid precautions really, I had to sign the electronic screen with my finger and had to vote on the digital screen with my finger as well, no sanitization or anything.

[Terry the Fat Shark]

https://www.wilco.org/Portals/0/Departments/Elections/1120/1120%20EV%20Summary/1019_1120%20Early%20Voting%20Summary.pdf

Williamson County, TX is up to 69.3% of 2016 turnout now. Over 37% turnout of registered voters.

[Terry the Fat Shark]

https://twitter.com/Andy_Eads/status/1318364228982628352

Denton County, TX up to 62.2% of 2016 turnout.

[Terry the Fat Shark]

Collin County at 62% of 2016 turnout. (They just started 7-7 voting today).

[Terry the Fat Shark]

Travis County up to at least 56.3% of 2016 turnout.

[Terry the Fat Shark]

Some more TX numbers:

Denton and Collin counties both at 69% of 2016 turnout after today.

Williamson County at 77% of 2016 turnout and at over 44% turnout of overall registered voters.

Tarrant county at 53% of 2016 turnout after today.

Hidalgo County at 62% of 2016 turnout after today.

[Terry the Fat Shark]

Some more TX numbers:

Denton and Collin counties both at 69% of 2016 turnout after today.

Williamson County at 77% of 2016 turnout and at over 44% turnout of overall registered voters.

Tarrant county at 53% of 2016 turnout after today.

Hidalgo County at 62% of 2016 turnout after today.

What does it all mean?

For one thing, things aren't slowing down. Denton and Collin Counties are both up at least 7% from yesterday, as is Williamson. I believe Tarrant went up 6-8% too from yesterday. Tarrant is especially impressive given we are still voting 8-5 while most of the rest of the urban counties are 7-7 now, which we dont switch over to until Saturday.

[Terry the Fat Shark]

Tarrant County up to 60% of 2016 turnout