Floridians over the age of 70 turned in 43.19 percent of early ballots and those aged 50 to 69 consisted of 40.25 percent of early voters.
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The 1o largest counties in Texas, including Denton County, are having a record-breaking week at the polls as the number of early voting ballots has surpassed both the 2012 and 2008 early votes so far. States allowing their citizens to vote early could mean that the president is already decided before one even gets the chance to vote. Early voting began to decline slightly on the third day as would be expected.
However, in Tom Green County only 1,653 voted Monday – markedly fewer than the 2,186 first-day voters in 2012.
Elections officials continue to remind voters that photo identification is required in order to cast a ballot during early voting or on November 8. Of those, 3,491 have voted in person at the board of elections building on Longview Avenue and 9,118 have mailed their votes into the office.
The Republican presidential candidate on Thursday tweeted there was “a lot of call-ins about vote flipping” in Texas voting booths.
According to The Dallas Morning News, election officials encourage voters to double-check their ballot before voting.
Democrats are ahead of Republicans in terms of returning ballots, and their lead is growing.
Texas is not the only state to suffer early voting hiccups.
Early enthusiasm drove early voting numbers to 1,054,959 with long lines reported across Metro Atlanta. The County Courthouse is closed on Sundays.
“Although rumors of “vote switching” in Texas are rampant”, the site’s Wednesday report reads, “we found only one case in which a report was investigated, and it was found to be unsubstantiated”. The 2016 general election is the Mountain State’s first since doing away with automated straight-ticket voting.
“If we had someone in the polling place tell us, ‘Hey, it marked something other than what I marked on the screen, ‘ we would stop the process and ask the voter to show us”, Sherbet said. After six days in 2012, when Barack Obama was re-elected, the total was 91,156.
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GoVoteKY.com is Kentucky’s one-stop elections portal where voters can find their polling location, view sample ballots, and find other important elections information. Democrats have traditionally benefited from higher turnout in all levels of voting, especially federal races, and early voting makes it easier for residents to cast their ballots. If voting by mail, ballots must be mailed by Saturday, Nov. 5 by noon. Republican nominee Donald Trump has been publicly accused of sexually assaulting women, which could drive more women to the polls. In 2012, Democrats trailed Republicans at this point by 10 percentage points. By race, voter modeling by Catalist found the white share of OH ballot requests was up to 91 percent from 87 percent. “I’m so excited that people are getting out to vote”.
