There are two Monday through Friday periods in Early Voting, and we just finished the first of them. Let’s check in on the numbers.
Year Early Mail Total Mailed
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2019 44,244 6,790 51,043 26,105
2015 48,027 21,141 69,168 42,938
2013 28,303 14,342 42,645 30,544
The 2019 Day Three file is here, the final 2015 file is here, and the final 2013 file is here. The daily voter rosters are here, and I will try to do something with that over the weekend.
Friday was a relatively slow day – in order of business, it went Tuesday, Thursday, Wednesday, Friday, Monday this week. By contrast, in 2015 the first Friday was the busiest day of that week by a lot, a step up from the rest. Possibly the inclement weather discouraged a few people – the weekend is supposed to be glorious, so we’ll see about that. Or maybe people were too occupied with the Astros to think about anything else. Who knows? All we can say is that 2015 is ahead of 2019, and the lead is growing. Saturday is usually a busy day. I’ll let you know tomorrow.
The Astros are taking up the bulk of the time, they ain’t thinking election, plus the most viable race, the mayor, has been nasty from the beginning. Nasty almost ways results in lower turn out.