Cuyahoga County (Cleveland, Ohio) update....

[WCGreen]

As of yesterday, 22.7% of all registered voters here in Cuyahoga County have voted.

There are still about 77,000 absentee ballots that have not been returned or processed by the BOE.

The Breakdown is thus:

58.11% of all Absentee and early voters were requested by Democratic voters.
11.12% of all Absentee and early voters were requested by Republican voters.
30.77% of all Absentee and early voters were requested by Independent voters.

[JohnnyRingo]

1. I wonder why there are so many independents?

Doesn't that seem like a lot?

[WCGreen]

2. Outside of this year, there really haven't been all that many contentious

primary ballots in Cuyahoga County...

If you don't vote in a primary as a partisan after so long, you revert back to an Independent...

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

3. Where do you get this data, WCGreen?

[WCGreen]

4. From the BOE website...

http://boe.cuyahogacounty.us/en-US/reports-historical-information.aspx

http://boe.cuyahogacounty.us/AbsenteeVoterReturns.aspx?LanguageCD=en-US

These two pages from the Website and then I take the info over to a spreadsheet and get the numbers...