Daily Kos : Iowa Early Voting Update, Wednesday October 17, 2012 - The latest figures out of Iowa, absentee ballot requests, the numbers for actual ballots cast - Along with voter registration updates in Nevada, Pennsylvania, and North Carolina

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Daily Kos
Iowa Early Voting Update, 10/17/12
By FightingRegistrar
Wednesday, October 17, 2012


Iowa Early Voting Update, 10/17/12


Some excerpts :

First here are the numbers for the absentee ballot requests:

Dems 207,076 (46.25%)

Reps 137,083 (30.62%)

Inds 103,098 (23.03%)

Oth 448 (negligible)

TOTAL 447,705

Here are the new ballot requests since the last report:

Dems +6,604

Reps +6,147

Inds +5,296

This is the second straight day that Democrats outstripped Republicans in absentee ballot requests.  This is a very positive development because for a while there, Republicans were outpacing Democrats by a large margin with regard to this metric.

And now, here are the numbers for actual ballots cast:

Dems 132,946 (50.24%)

Reps 78,865 (29.81%)

Inds 52,548 (19.86%)

Oth 238 (negligible)

TOTAL 264,597

Here are the ballots cast since the previous daily report: 13,000

Dems +8,953

Reps +8,720

Inds +5,706

Close to 25,000 votes were cast since the previous daily report.  As you can see, Republicans are right behind Democrats in ballots cast for this daily report.  But they're not there yet!  About 54,000 more Democrats have cast ballots than Republicans in Iowa up to this point.  By the end of the early voting period in 2008, Democrats were ahead of Republicans by about 86,000 ballots cast, so we have some work to do. 

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