Submitted by R. Neal on Wed, 2008/01/23 - 1:36pm

The early voting totals are being updated again, and through yesterday 6554 people had voted early, 2821 Democrat and 3732 Republican.

With six of fourteen early voting days concluded, the total is on pace to exceed 15,000. It could be higher because of a) slow business due to the weather yesterday, b) Democrats waiting for South Carolina (Jan. 26th), and c) Republicans waiting for Florida (Jan. 29th).

Based on that, turnout could be significantly higher on the last two days (Jan. 30th and 31st). People who voted early for Thompson are probably feeling burned right about now, and others may be looking at that and thinking they might wait to make sure their vote will count for someone still in the race.

In the past, early voting has been about 40% of the turnout, and as high as about 60%. This means Knox County could be looking at turnout of 25,000 to 38,000. That sounds low, which also suggests the possibility of much heavier turnout in the last few days of early voting.

What do you think?

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Joe Taylor's picture

Voter Turn Out

I believe I projected 36,000+/-...

My SWAG was based on the fact that I am not sure people actually vote anymore... and it is always someone else’s idiot politician who caused the problem not mine attitude...

Also with Fred out of the race does that cause the voter turn out to drop???

R. Neal's picture

with Fred out of the race

with Fred out of the race does that cause the voter turn out to drop???

Probably.

Nut Butter's picture

Maybe it is because: "The

Maybe it is because:

"The people who cast the votes don't decide an election, the people who count the votes do." - Joseph Stalin

But I must say that at least where my family went to early vote that the process seemed very well-managed. We should all appreciate the efforts of the volunteer poll workers that enable the process. I still don't trust the electronic voting machines though. Especially those that run Winderz (DieBold)...

NB

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