DES MOINES – Starting today, Thursday, September 25, Iowans may vote early in-person by absentee ballot at their county auditor’s office or satellite voting location. This option is available through Monday, November 3 at 5 PM for the upcoming November 4 general election.
Through September 23, Democrats have requested many more absentee ballots than Republicans in Iowa. So far, Republican voters have requested 36,025 absentee ballots, while Democrats have asked for 71,601. These numbers are roughly double the totals from the 2010 elections.
Secretary of State Matt Schultz encouraged Iowa voters to get to the polls this election season and make their voices heard.
“Every vote counts and it’s important that Iowans participate to make sure their voices are heard,” Schultz said.
The marquee match-ups this election features Steve King versus Jim Mowrer for the 4th District seat in the U.S. House of Representatives and Joni Ernst versus Bruce Braley for Tom Harkin’s seat in the U.S. Senate.
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This is a strange article as KIMT has been reporting all day that even though the Dems are ahead on absentee voting the Republicans have made up a lot of ground. Now maybe they are only talking about Cerro Gordo County. I personally think that people who vote this far ahead are lemmings who vote straight ticket. A lot of things come out in the last month before the election that could change a person’s mind. If you have already voted you can’t change.
The number of people who actually filled out the ballots and sent them in (voted) are much closer and much smaller. These numbers are as of 9-23: 1,749 (d) and 1,449 (r) absentee ballots received by that date.
http://sos.iowa.gov/elections/pdf/2014/general/absenteestats.pdf
I did not report on only Cerro Gordo numbers because the main races of US Senate and 4th District House cover a much wider territory than just CG county, and I don’t find it worthwhile to report only CG numbers.
@Matt-Thank you. That explains it. I am not surprised that the Dems have more people signed up for absentee. They do a excellent job of getting to the assisted living and nursing homes using the excuse they are just registering people when in reality they are talking them into registering as Democrats. They will deny it, but I have seen it in person at Kentucky Ridge.
I don’t doubt that the democrats absentee ballots out number the republicans, these dead people take longer to fill out their ballots.