Early 2022 Voting Far Outpaces Normal Midterm Election Numbers

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Early 2022 Voting Outpaces Normal Midterm Election Numbers, Comparable to 2018: Data

By Jack Phillips, The Epoch Times, October 18, 2022:

About 2.7 million people have already voted in more than a dozen states that include early voting options, according to data released this week by a university. That figure is on par with the record turnout during the 2018 midterm elections, a professor concluded.

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Of that figure, 2,353,531 people voted via mail-in ballots, while 337,852 cast their ballots in person, data from the University of Florida’s U.S. Elections Project shows. About a third of the early votes recorded so far have been cast in Florida alone, as more than 600,000 in the Sunshine State have cast ballots.

“It’s clear that we are above the 2018 midterm at the same point in time in states where we have comparable data to look at,” Michael McDonald, a professor at the University of Florida, told ABC News. “We can see the sorts of indicators that would suggest that we’re in for a high-turnout election, much like we had in 2018. And 2018 was the highest midterm turnout rate since 1914.”

Florida, which has a Republican governor and a Republican-controlled legislature, is leading the way so far, the data shows.

“Quite remarkable … considering that early voting is going on in many other states,” McDonald told ABC News. “Florida has been piling on another 100,000 every day, at this point. Florida’s really why the numbers have moved so quickly.”
Florida Leads

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis last week signed an executive order that allows Hurricane Ian-hit areas more flexibility to request and cast ballots, including adding three days of early voting and rescinding certain voting requirements in several western coastal counties.

During an event on Saturday, DeSantis encouraged people to vote by mail.

“What I would say is whatever you like is fine. We’ve got good returns on absentee, and I have confidence in early voting, in person [voting], and of course Election day [voting],” the Republican governor said.

Between 2006 and 2018, in-person voting on Election Day decreased by about 20 percent—from 80 percent to 60 percent, according to research, with voters increasingly favoring early mail-in voting and early in-person voting.

McDonald said that recent trends in midterm voting might be a sign of things to come.

“What we’re observing here is that some people have changed their behavior. They’re either voting early, where they may not have done so in a past midterm election, or they’re voting sooner than they would have,” he told the outlet. “Those are both things that we saw in 2020, where people were not only voting by mail, and in-person early at greater frequencies then they had past elections, but they were also voting earlier than they had in prior presidential elections.”

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Don Davenport

1 year ago

Same voting system, same fraud will occur, but this time on an even greater level.

The media will then crow 2022 was the “most secure” midterm election in American history and “democracy is saved”.

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Snowedin

1 year ago

More room for voter fraud.

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Hardrock

1 year ago

The Demoncrats are not concerned about the Midterms outcome. Because they know that they have already won the Midterms. So this voting thing with ballots is just an unfortunate formality that they have to endure.

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k33j88

1 year ago

If the commie/democrats steal this midterm, we are lost to elitist, communist, tyranny.

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Roger Grant

1 year ago

If this one gets stolen, the whole thing is off.

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steven jacobs

1 year ago

ballott harvesting in old age homes and cemeteries

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