Ballots go out as absentee voting gets more popular in Maine
Source: Portland Press Herald
"Registered Democrats accounted for 11,152 of the 23,178 absentee ballot requests – nearly 50 percent – submitted with clerks’ offices statewide as of Sept. 29, according to the latest tally. Registered Republicans, by comparison, had submitted 4,866 absentee ballot requests, while unenrolled voters had requested 6,440 ballots. Green Independent and registered Libertarians – a new official party in Maine – accounted for 720 ballot requests."
"Nationwide, early voting appears to be surging in this election despite strong voter dissatisfaction with the two leading presidential candidates, Democrat Hillary Clinton and Republican Donald Trump. The Associated Press projected that, based on preliminary data, roughly 40 percent of all votes nationwide this year could be cast before Election Day.
The AP also suggested that early indications in critical states such as North Carolina and Florida suggest that Clinton could be benefiting from the heightened interest in early voting."
Read more: http://www.pressherald.com/2016/10/01/ballots-go-out-as-absentee-voting-grows-in-popularity-in-maine/
The democrats are fired up about this election. This is good news.
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