In general or just this year? Because this isn’t your normal voting year.
Because Republicans hate the idea of encouraging people to vote.
You’d be accused of disrespecting the Veterans, even though that’s part of what they’re supposed to have fought for. As opposed to holding a bedroom furniture sale.
The thread title should be updated.
Or people could just read the thread.
(NEXSTAR) – White Castle announced Tuesday that it is closing all of its locations for four hours on Election Day to give employees a chance to vote.
The restaurants will be closed from 7 to 11 a.m., and employees who are scheduled to work Nov. 3 will get those hours as paid time off."
https://electproject.github.io/Early-Vote-2020G/index.html
29 Oct
Total Early Votes: 81,352,960 • In-Person Votes: 28,378,765 • Mail Ballots Returned: 52,974,195 • Mail Ballots Outstanding: 37,402,635
“National holidays” are also not inherently a day off for most workers, and the people who are most likely to get the obscure technicality holidays off are 9-5 office workers who have the least trouble finding time to vote as it is.
I think there was a county somewhere that declared a holiday on election day in one of the recent cycles, and it ended up backfiring because only county government workers got it off…including the transit drivers that some people relied on to get them to the polls.
Early voting in Texas has now exceeded the total vote in 2016, with today being the final day for early voting. Just astonishing.
https://electproject.github.io/Early-Vote-2020G/index.html
Last updated: 10/30/2020 01:47 AM Eastern Time
Total Early Votes: 82,042,050 • In-Person Votes: 28,378,765 • Mail Ballots Returned: 53,663,285 • Mail Ballots Outstanding: 36,722,837
NBC is speculating that early voting in Harris County alone could turn Texas blue.
God, it’s possible that we’re all overlooking the possibility of Texas voting for Biden, probably because none of us dare dream of it happening. If it does, it’s ovah. It’s a huge hill to climb but young Democratic voters in Houston and elsewhere are scaling it.
Houston is very big, very diverse, and fairly liberal. It could do it.
This site apparently updates more than once a day.
https://electproject.github.io/Early-Vote-2020G/index.html
Last updated: 10/30/2020 11:48 AM Eastern Time
Total Early Votes: 84,679,411 • In-Person Votes: 30,081,048 • Mail Ballots Returned: 54,598,363 • Mail Ballots Outstanding: 36,051,423
That’s 2.6 million more early votes than they reported last night. Most of those are in person votes.
My town here in Connecticut is opening Town Hall on Saturday morning solely for absentee ballot applications. They will issue absentee ballots on the spot. No dealing with the mail. So far as I know they’ve never done this before on a weekend.
I believe you have to be a registered voter, though, and the deadline to register was October 27th. Connecticut does have same-day voter registration, but anyone who wants to do that has to wait until Election Day.
Update only 3 hours after the last one. In that time, over 1 million more votes cast, over half of which were mail-in.
https://electproject.github.io/Early-Vote-2020G/index.html
Last updated: 10/30/2020 02:56 PM Eastern Time
Total Early Votes: 85,721,762 • In-Person Votes: 30,518,913 • Mail Ballots Returned: 55,202,849 • Mail Ballots Outstanding: 35,593,853
The numbers are increasing by the day. SO wonderful to see!
Hopefully this large early turnout will take pressure off of the poll workers and reduce the lines so that everyone who shows up to the polls on Tuesday can easily vote.
Not quite. Trump got 62,984,828 and Hillary got 65,853,514.
Our NC county has 500k voting out of 800k registered. Total population little over 1 million.