Early voting on pace to break records for a governor's race in Maine

[jpak]

https://www.pressherald.com/2018/11/01/absentee-voting-on-pace-to-break-records-for-a-governors-race-in-maine/

Mainers are setting early voting records for a governor’s election, with 34 percent more absentee ballots submitted so far this year than in 2014, contributing to a projected turnout of 65 percent.

Democrats continue to outpace Republicans in absentee voting, with 61,792 ballots returned as of Thursday, or 18 percent of all registered Democrats, the Secretary of State’s Office said. Among Republicans, 40,408 absentee ballots were returned, or just over 14 percent of party members. Unenrolled voters, who make up the largest single voting bloc in Maine, had turned in 35,565 ballots, or 9 percent of all voters not belonging to a party.

Overall, about 140,000 voters had returned absentee ballots to their local election officials. Another 47,000 ballots that were requested have yet to be returned. At this point in 2014, about 105,000 absentee ballots had been returned.

Absentee voting hit its peak in 2016, a presidential election year in which almost 190,000 absentee ballots were cast in Maine.

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[PoindexterOglethorpe]

1. I suspect that early voting everywhere it's available

is up a lot.

Most people who early vote are totally sold on it. I haven't voted on election day itself in anything other than something like a city council race in April or a bond issue in June for two decades.