October 23, 2008 12:24 AM UTC

Early Voting Numbers

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• by: redstateblues

I was reading Mark Blumenthal last night when I came across an article he had linked to by David Hill at The Hill:

I spotted a new word this week that may soon be a stock part of the jargon of elections: precount. The context in which the word was coined was more general, describing the sum of events leading up to the election. But the term may soon have a more precise mathematical meaning if Professor Michael McDonald of George Mason University lures more of us to his early voting website.

There are some interesting numbers there:

Florida (in-person only, percentages are by party affiliation)

Democrat: 56.2%

Republican: 29.3%

None/Other: 14.4%

Those look good, but they do not include any mail-in ballots (with which Republicans hold an advantage on registration numbers) and it is only 2% of the votes cast in the 2004 election.

North Carolina (percentages by party affiliation, absentee and one-stop)

Democrat: 56.4%

Republican: 27.1%

None: 16.5%

If you’re getting sick of polls and the conjecture regarding their meaning, keep an eye on this site and you’ll at least have quantitative data to ponder.