Here are the totals for Wednesday, and here are the daily totals from 2010, from 2014, and from 2016, as well as a spreadsheet with totals from 2004, 2008, 2012, and 2016. The running tallies:
Year Mail Early Total
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2010 48,478 288,568 337,046
2014 63,857 220,505 284,362
2018 82,009 605,869 687,878
2008 49,558 513,888 563,446
2012 61,972 549,816 611,788
2016 89,271 700,697 789,968
There was a dip in participation yesterday, which I would attribute to one part Halloween and one part bad weather. My guess is the numbers will bounce right back today. We are still very much on track to exceed the entire turnout for 2010 by the end of early voting.
Perhaps off topic somewhat, but I had less than a dozen trick or treaters, I guess because of the weather. It’s not surprising that voting was light yesterday.