5 Points Of What To Make Of The Insane Early Voting Numbers We’re Seeing | Talking Points Memo

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@bboerner

Some but dwarfed by in person voting.

Checking out Early Voting Turnout by Date from TX SoS we see Harris County had 1,051,892 cumulative in person votes as of 10/27/20 and 158,190 cumulative mail in - about 13%. It’s about 10-13% for the top 5 counties.

Eye ball comparison to 2016 General Election Early Vote totals looks like while mail in volume has about doubled we’re also seeing greater in-person turnout.

Then look at the stark increase in youth voting this election.
h/t @KalTX

@KalTX

Data as of Oct 23 (they also added 2020/2016 mail-in ballot numbers and an early voting count for Texas in 2016 since the last time I looked/shared):

Imagine that much of the early youth vote tally is going to be in the MANY college towns in the state.
Which, while Harris County is home to UH, Rice, TSU, and HBU-- those numbers of voters aren’t as great a percentage as some other smaller college towns (College Station, Lubbock, San Marcos, etc.).