Legal Commentary

Amazing Early Voting Stats

By Professor University of Miami School of Law

The Buzz has the data as of the weekend, The Fla. tally so far: Ds up 80K votes:

The Fla. tally so far: Ds up 80K votes

Through Sunday, it appears absentee and early votes have Democrats up by 80,287 votes.

Of the 1,010,046 people who voted early, 53.7 percent were Democrats, 30.19 percent Republicans and 16.02 percent other. Of the 1,059,518 absentee ballots returned so far, 35.31 percent were from Democrats, 50.23 percent Republicans, and 14.46 percent other.

All told, 2,069,564 people have voted already — 44.33 percent of them Democrats, 40.45 percent Republicans, and 15.22 percent other.

These are statewide totals.

Full post as published by Discourse.net on October 27, 2008 (boomark / email).