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Sat Oct 10, 2020, 11:51 AM Oct 2020

Democrats 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. That’s 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
Univ of Fla.; In-person early voting up 5,333% Grins Oct 2020 #1
#VoteEarly oswaldactedalone Oct 2020 #2
Phone-banking, it's fun, it's rewarding al bupp Oct 2020 #3
Thank you and keep spreading that message. ffr Oct 2020 #4

Grins

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1. Univ of Fla.; In-person early voting up 5,333%
Sat Oct 10, 2020, 12:13 PM
Oct 2020

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

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