Minnesotans are voting at rate of 10,000 ballots a day
For more than 160,000 Minnesota voters, Election Day has come and gone.
In record numbers for a midterm election, Minnesotans are using absentee ballot and mail voting to cement their choices well before most polls open. During the past week alone, absentee ballots have been flooding in at the rate of 10,000 per day.
A Star Tribune analysis shows that those voting absentee tend to be older and are regular voters. About 70 percent of this year’s absentee voters cast ballots in 2006, 2008, 2010 and 2012. Another 17 percent voted in at least three of those elections. Only a sliver of those voters consistently used absentee ballots in the past.
“These are people who tend to vote both in midterms and in general elections,” said Tom Erickson, deputy campaign manager for Republican Mike McFadden’s U.S. Senate campaign. “These are people that are not independents. They tend to be Republicans or Democrats.”
They also tend to be older. More than half of all early voters are over 65, according to the Star Tribune’s analysis of absentee ballots accepted so far. Just in the last week, younger voters have started flooding election offices.
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