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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDemocrats Are Piling Up A Massive Absentee Vote Advantage In Swing States
According to The New York Times, key battleground states like Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, North Carolina and Florida are seeing a surge in Democratic enthusiasm in heavily blue cities.
In Wisconsin, for example, the report notes that nearly 650,000 absentee ballots have already been cast, many of those votes coming from Democratic strongholds. Thats a stunning boost from the 146,000 mail-in votes that were cast overall in Wisconsin in the 2016 general election.
The same trend is being seen nationwide as millions of voters are casting their vote early by mail or in person.
As of Friday, more than 8.3 million ballots had already been received by elections officials in the 30 states that have made data available, the New York Times reports. In six states including the battlegrounds of Wisconsin and Minnesota the number of ballots returned already is more than 20 percent of the entire 2016 turnout. - PoliticusUSA
Keep voting. And if you can, help others to cast theirs. Drive them to EV, encourage them in every way. Make sure they've filled out their mail-in properly, etc.
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Democrats Are Piling Up A Massive Absentee Vote Advantage In Swing States (Original Post)
ffr
Oct 2020
OP
Grins
(7,222 posts)1. Univ of Fla.; In-person early voting up 5,333%
Over the same period compared to 2016.
75,000 then.
4-MILLION today.
And that was Monday. The next day Ohio and Indiana began in-person early voting! Both states had LONG lines.
Next week? Kansas, Tenn. - and Texas
oswaldactedalone
(3,491 posts)2. #VoteEarly
al bupp
(2,182 posts)3. Phone-banking, it's fun, it's rewarding
talk to actual voters in places the matter of your choosing:
https://swingleft.org/
ffr
(22,671 posts)4. Thank you and keep spreading that message.
Every single vote matters.