The early vote hours for Saturday are 7 to 7, so the report comes out later. So, I’m just going to cut to the chase:
EV 2010
EV 2014
Day 5 EV 2018 totals
Year Party Mail In Person Total
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2010 Dem 4,129 10,516 14,645
2010 Rep 8,498 16,533 25,031
2014 Dem 3,592 7,765 11,357
2014 Rep 12,288 18,176 30,464
2018 Dem 9,620 22,252 31,872
2018 Rep 12,642 20,730 33,372
The Saturdays of early voting are always strong for Democrats, and this one was no exception. Between mail and in-person, Dems led on Saturday by over 2,100 votes, thus closing the overall turnout gap to within 1,500. Note that the five-day turnout of 31,872 is more than the final EV turnout in 2014, which was 30,108. I’d guess the Dems will exceed their entire primary turnout from 2014 by Thursday. Week 2 is always busier than Week 1, so we’ll see how high the ceiling is.
WOW, Thank you for these posts.