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A sampling of early voting
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A sampling of early voting
Americans are turning out in droves to cast their votes early
Thursday, October 28, 2004 Posted: 12:09 PM EDT (1609 GMT)
(AP) -- Here's a sampling of early voting activity across the country:
Alaska: State expects to send out about 60,000 absentee ballots, double the number from 2000.
California: Numbers of permanent absentee voters statewide are up sharply from four years ago. In Los Angeles County, nearly 300,000 people have voted by absentee ballots or in person. Absentee ballot requests in the county are double that of four years ago.
Colorado: Up to 60 percent of total turnout expected to be from early and absentee votes. As of Wednesday, 501,000 people had voted; in 2000, 45 percent of voters -- 775,000 people -- cast early ballots. (Showdown states: Colorado)
Florida: High interest in early voting both at early voting sites and through absentee ballots. In Leon County, nearly 31,000 people had cast absentee ballots by Tuesday, compared with little more than 10,000 absentees cast throughout the 2000 race. As well, 8,000 people in the county have taken advantage of in-person early voting, an option that wasn't available four years ago. (Showdown states: Florida)
Hawaii: Estimated early and absentee votes cast by Tuesday: 64,000. Total for 2000: 73,000. (Long lines for some early voters)
Idaho: Four biggest counties all running ahead of 2000 in early and absentee voting. "We're smothered," said Canyon County elections worker Terry Warwick.
Illinois: In Chicago, 19,000 absentee ballots returned by Monday. In-person absentee voting running about 30 percent higher than four years ago.
New Hampshire: 4,100 absentee ballots requested in Manchester, the state's largest city, as of Tuesday, compared with 3,400 requested for all of 2000. (Showdown states: New Hampshire)
New Jersey: Local election officials seeing unusually high number of absentee ballots. "I've been here 24 years and I've never seen anything like this," said Arlene Wiltshire, a clerk at the Cumberland County Board of Elections. "We're working through our lunch, we're working every night."
North Carolina: 424,000 early voters as of Tuesday, compared to 393,000 for all of 2000. "Democracy is having a terrific couple of weeks here," said Mike Ashe, director of the Durham Board of Elections. (Special Report: America Votes 2004, showdown states)
Ohio: Hamilton County, which includes Cincinnati, had received 27,000 ballots by Tuesday. "We'll get tubs and tubs more in, from here on out," said Sally Krisel, a county board of elections administrator. About 36,000 people in the county voted absentee four years ago. (Showdown states: Ohio)
Oregon: State has all-mail voting. Through Monday, counties had received ballots from 29 percent of all registered voters, compared to 18 percent at the comparable time in 2000. (Showdown states: Oregon)
Pennsylvania: Election officials in five most populous counties report that requests for absentee ballots are up more than 25 percent from 2000. (Showdown states: Pennsylvania)
South Carolina: Through Friday, 104,000 people had cast absentee ballots, with 10 days remaining for more ballots to come in. In 2000, a total of 104,000 cast absentee ballots.
South Dakota: In Minnehaha County, the state's largest, 11,000 people had voted absentee by Tuesday. Previous record was 7,500.
Tennessee: 702,000 people had voted early as of Sunday, compared to 452,000 at same point in 2000.
Texas: 1.3 million people had voted through Monday in the state's 15 most populous counties, compared with 857,000 at the comparable time in 2000.
Utah: "They were lined up outside the door," Jason Yocum, chief deputy clerk for Salt Lake County, said of early voters Monday.
West Virginia: 73,000 people had voted by Tuesday, about 6 percent of registered voters. "It's working us to death," said Barbour County Clerk Debra Harris Talbott. "There's no way we can handle it. We're doing it, but that's all we're doing." (Showdown states: West Virginia)
Wisconsin: "They're coming in droves," said Linda Long, deputy clerk in Sheboygan. In 10 of the state's biggest cities, absentee ballots coming in well ahead of numbers tallied four years ago. (Showdown states: Wisconsin)
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