Sorry I skipped yesterday’s EV totals. I’m going to try to do this every day but that’s easier said than done. Let’s pick it up from here.
Year Early Mail Total Mailed
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2019 26,206 6,050 32,256 22,142
2015 27,596 18,196 45,752 41,994
2013 15,595 12,033 27,628 29,538
The 2019 Day Three file is here, the final 2015 file is here, and the final 2013 file is here.
So as with Day One, the difference between this year and the two previous election years is the volume of mail ballots. The in person vote total is quite comparable to 2015, and well ahead of 2013, but thanks to three times as many mail ballots from 2015, and twice as many from 2013, the overall total is just slightly ahead of 2013 and well behind 2015. We’re getting close to a point where the number of mail ballots returned in 2015 will be greater than the number of mail ballots sent out from this year. I really don’t know what to make of that.
As it happens, the County Clerk’s office is now publishing the daily voter roster, broken down by vote type, so an enterprising soul could take a deeper look and try to arrive at some conclusions. It would help to get the daily roster from the earlier years as well, for comparison purposes. You’d have to make that request from the Clerk, but obviously you can do it. I’m hoping someone else will do this for me, but if I get desperate enough I may take a crack at it. Anyway, this is what we have now. Let me know what you think.
I have heard from an elderly voter in my precinct that she sent in a ballot by mail request provided to her by one of the campaigns and the County Clerk’s office claims they never received it. I wonder if the low mail ballot numbers reflect some glitch in the county clerk’s office, or with the US Post office in the aftermath of Imelda.