[IP] Early voting data

[David Farber <dave@farber.net>]

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From: Cameron Wilson <wilson_c@hq.acm.org>
Date: October 27, 2008 5:19:06 PM EDT
To: USACM@LISTSERV.ACM.ORG
Subject: Fwd: Early voting data
Reply-To: Cameron Wilson <wilson_c@hq.acm.org>

Hi --

I thought that this list would be interested in some data that David  
found.

Cameron

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> From: David Bruggeman <bruggeman_d@hq.acm.org>
> Date: October 27, 2008 4:37:20 PM EDT
> To: Cameron Wilson <wilson_c@hq.acm.org>, Sara Appleyard <Sara.Appleyard@widmeyer.com 
> >
> Cc: Gene Spafford <spaf@cerias.purdue.edu>, Virginia Gold <v_gold@hq.acm.org 
> >, Lillian Israel <israel@hq.acm.org>, Brian Hebert  
> <hebert@hq.acm.org>
> Subject: Early voting data
>
> The same GMU researcher who gathered the primary data I provided has  
> been
> collected early voting data:
>
> http://elections.gmu.edu/early_vote_2008.html
>
> As of this morning's information, 11.5 million people have voted early
> nationwide, which is approximately 9.3% of the total 2004 vote.   
> Some states
> are reporting numbers that are 25-30% of the total 2004 vote for their
> states.  Many states are exceeding the percentages of early voting  
> from
> 2004, with a few days left to vote in most of these states.  That  
> means that
> early voting numbers in those states have already exceeded their early
> voting totals from 2004.

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