Early voting ends in Volusia-Flagler (FL) with numbers approaching entire 2016 total

[RandySF]

If one thing became clear as early voting ended Sunday in Volusia County, it is that voters are very engaged in the voting process in 2020.

Consider that in 2016 a total of 265,202 people voted in Volusia County. By the end of Saturday, 242,239 people had already voted by mail or early voting in person in the county. That's a figure that doesn't include Sunday's total, or the thousands of people who are expected to vote on Tuesday's Election Day.

In Flagler County, where early voting ended on Saturday, 64.4% of eligible voters have already cast a ballot.

"It's what we wanted," Volusia County Supervisor of Election Lisa Lewis said of the heavy turnout so far. "We wanted people to come out and vote. It's exciting."




https://www.news-journalonline.com/story/news/local/volusia/2020/11/01/early-voting-ends-heavy-turnout-volusia-flagler/6116455002/

[MakeTXBlue2020]

1. Blue county I'm guessing?

[BlueInPhilly]

2. Republican

Republican: 145,115
Democratic: 129,059
Other: 5,906
Independent: 107,387

Total: 387,467

https://dos.myflorida.com/elections/data-statistics/voter-registration-statistics/voter-registration-reportsxlsx/voter-registration-by-county-and-party/

[MakeTXBlue2020]

3. Well, maybe some Republicans and most indies are voting Biden

[Blue_true]

4. My guess is a percentage of early voting republicans voted for Joe.

The early voting indies, hopefully went heavily for Joe.

Joe doesn’t need to win that county, all he need to do is cut into Trump’s margin there. Florida has something like 67 counties total.

[MakeTXBlue2020]

6. Texas has 254 counties!

Anyway, I'm sure Biden is doing better in this county than Clinton did. At least there are many Republicans who feel comfortable voting Biden. Feel like this is going to be an amazing week! I'm avoiding the doom and gloom threads.

[Blue_true]

9. Florida only has 67 counties, but if Joe trims Trump's margin in red counties by around 2000 votes

on average, he wins Florida. The key for Democrats in Florida is to not let the small counties hurt us by yielding big margins to Trump. I like what my red county is looking like, in 2016, there were Trump signs and vehicle decals everywhere it seemed, on a drive I would see several hundred. Now, I may see 10-20 on a drive. We have around 225,000 registered voters, if Joe gets 2,000-4,000 more that Hillary got in my county, Trump is in trouble statewide. If Joe only does +1,000 in my county, he is still in good shape statewide, though we would need the big urban counties to weigh in heavier for him.

[LisaL]

5. Mixed.

NT

[csziggy]

8. Leon County Florida Stats - (Tallahassee)

2020 Early voting totals - 64,942
2020 Vote by Mail totals - 62,728
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2020 TOTAL Votes so far - 127,670
(Currently there are 217,245 registered voters in Leon County.
Dem - 116,294
Rep - 57,791
Others - 43,369)

2016 Total Votes - 155,055 (72.12% of the 206,402 registered voters)

All information from https://www.leonvotes.gov/

[MoonlitKnight]

10. Volusia is important

It can be swung. Even if we keep it close there it’s good. Flagler is more republican.

High turnout is generally good.