Today’s entry is short — not all counties are publishing data over the weekend, and the TX SoS site has some errors. The short of it? Things are still looking fantastic. At the end of day 3, we had 1.7M early votes out of the 16 largest counties. At the end of day 4, we had over 2.2M.
A half million here, a half million there…
We’re talking about some real participation going on. The question now is which county is going to be first to break 2018 early voter participation, and when. Harris County’s on track to do so on Sun or Mon at the latest. El Paso county’s not far behind. Williamson County should on Sun.
Two out of the three are deep, beautiful blue. Williamson county’s a huge question mark, because no one knows quite what the education effect is going to be this year. In either case, it’s utterly amazing.
Other news? We’ve passed in 20% registered voter participation statewide. Holy Voting, Batman. And we’ve got another 14 days of early voting to go, and then a weekend breather before election day proper!
Here’s a SHORT chart for today. Again, I’ve got a bunch of numbers missing for Friday, including most county mail-in ballot numbers and Ft Bend county’s early in-person vote. The total, with all of that in, will absolutely be over 20k — I’m guessing it’s another 35-40k from yesterday that I can’t track yet.
Texas Early Voting: Quick Look
16 top counties |
2020 |
2016 |
2018 |
day 1 |
758,879 |
n/a |
n/a |
day 2 |
522,629 |
n/a |
n/a |
day 3 |
509,910 |
n/a |
n/a |
Day 4 |
481,614 |
n/a |
n/a |
to date total |
2,273,032 |
n/a |
n/a |
Totals |
?? |
4.3M |
3.75M |