We’re in the second and final week of early voting. There are now four days of EV remaining. Your early voting results through Monday, Day Eight:
The numbers after eight days of early voting are
Mail = 45,916
In Person = 783,850
Total = 829,766
As I thought, the second Monday of 2024, with 96,919 in person votes, exceeded the second and third Mondays of 2020 (74,827 and 52,175 in person votes, though the second Monday in 2020 also had 17K mail ballots arrive) and the second Monday of 2016 (69,323). The second Monday totals were less than any day in Week 1 for 2020 and for 2016 other than the first Monday. That was also true for 2024, but the dropoff was obviously smaller than it was in 2020. We’re still averaging a bit more than 110K in person votes for each of the six weekdays in 2024, compared to a bit less than 106K for the first five weekdays (remember that initial four-day week) in 2020. That gap will widen as we go. I think Tuesday and Wednesday will be similar to Monday, with an uptick on Thursday and a bigger step up on Friday. That’s a typical pattern, anyway. Have you voted yet?
Voted Day 2…couldn’t get there on Day 1 as I hadn’t finished ballot choices using LWV Guide, Chron endorsements, Houston Bar Association poll, and other news stories.
75% Dem votes
25% Rep votes
Usually I’m 65/35 Dem. but the R team had some really crappy judicial candidates in the pocket of Paxton or who were overtly political.