Democrats outpacing Republicans in early absentee voting in Maine

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Source: Portland Press Herald

AUGUSTA — Democrats are again outpacing Republicans in requesting and filing absentee ballots for the Nov. 6 election in Maine. But election officials and experts who study early voting said that doesn’t necessarily give them an edge on Election Day.

The Secretary of State’s Office reported Monday that 19,470 Democrats have voted in Maine compared with 12,965 Republicans and 10,708 unenrolled voters. With two weeks to go until Election Day, the state was well ahead of the early voting pace in 2014, the last year when a governor’s race was at the top of the ballot.

As of Monday, about 6 percent of all registered Democrats had voted, compared with 4.6 percent of Republicans and 2.6 percent of unenrolled voters.

Democrats have traditionally outpaced Republicans in early voting in Maine, but Democrats also have a larger number of registered voters – 340,122 compared with 281,754 Republicans. Unenrolled voters comprise the largest single voting block at 358,734, making up close to 35 percent of the state’s total of 1,028,602 registered voters. The Green Independent Party and Libertarian Party recorded 42,438 and 5,554 voters, respectively.

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[SWBTATTReg]

1. Great news. I'll take any and all good/great news. go, Go, GO! my Maine friends. ...

Vote the traitorous republicans out of office and save our ACA, preserve our liberties, keep our federal debt from going sky high by repealing the Feb. 2018 tax cuts and jobs act. Put a check on rump's dictatorial tendencies and anti-American rhetoric and end his love affair w/ Nazi and white nationalist thugs.

[beachbum bob]

2. bottom line, MORE democrats have voted early than GOP and we can take the "unrolled" vote count

and just evenly split, but excellent chance its also majority democratic....every article on early voting almost aways opininates with well, this doesn't mean democrats have an edge...


like how many special elections since trump have democrats ERUPTED with votes?? You have to have your head in the sand to discount what has happen around the country in the previous 2 years of special elections

[sandensea]

3. It's curtains for LePig

The fat bastard could always go to Hollywood. I hear they're mulling another remake of Dune, and are having trouble casting Baron Harkonnen.

[LakeSuperiorView]

6. I thought he was term limited and done regardless...

[Zing Zing Zingbah]

7. Yes, he is. He isn't on the ballot. Bye-bye to him in Jan. n/t

[LBM20]

10. We call him The Penguin in Maine. (Ne looks like Danny DeVito's version of the The Penguin.)

[sandensea]

11. Perfect.

And every Penguin has his big business bankroller, Max Schreck.

[duforsure]

4. Maybe they now realize trump and the gop

Are liars , and telling people they want pre existing conditions covered when they voted against them all along and lying to the people . trump and the gop want all health care destroyed along with Social Security, and will make whats left of it useless. Like they are trying now to do to the ACA, which trump bragged about destroying for people. Their tax scam rewarding their wealthy donors after getting campaign funding from them , or bribes to get their tax cuts or else they'd stop funding their campaigns again. They're crooks and people are finding that out now, along with their taxes going up from trumps tax scam bill for the wealthy, they're liars who'll say anything including many , many lies to them.

[Grins]

5. Who cares????

There are FOUR candidates for Maine Governor, and only ONE of them is a Democrat! Maine may find itself in the same bucket of warm spit it has been in since 2010: A Republican Governor who has never had a 50.1% of the vote, and is hated by the majority that didn't vote for him.

'Yer doing it again, Maine!

[Zing Zing Zingbah]

8. Right, but Mainers have also been trying very hard to fix that problem.

Mainers voted for Ranked Choice Voting twice now. We do have it for the us senate and us rep races, but can't use it for governor because the Maine constitution needs to be modified to do that. The republicans and LePage wouldn't do it because they like the system stacked in their favor. Not going to give Mainers what we ask for. We will persist and get what we want eventually. We can at least do it for some races. I wish people would stop dissing on Mainers because we have been actively trying to change things and I haven't seen any other state implement those kind of changes yet.

[LBM20]

9. This is common though. So GOTV GOTV GOTV regardless of ANY early voting numbers.