# Absentee Votes - Details?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/absentee-votes-details/41602>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [November 17, 2000, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/absentee-votes-details/41602 "2000-11-17T16:11:17Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
**Page:** 1

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![toonerama](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecae2f/32.png) [@toonerama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/toonerama)\
**Post date:** [November 17, 2000, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/absentee-votes-details/41602/1 "2000-11-17T16:11:17Z")

</div>

Couple of questions:

Has anyone heard how many Florida absentee votes will be received, even roughly? I assume it’s enough to potentially make a difference to the election.

I heard a CNN guest saying that absentee voters tend to be republican, being ‘jet-set’ etc. But I thought most were military. Any thoughts?

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![wring](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/838e76/32.png) [@wring](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wring)\
**Post date:** [November 17, 2000, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/absentee-votes-details/41602/2 "2000-11-17T16:28:56Z")

</div>

I’ve heard that most of the overseas ballots were already in and counted, there’s a potential of about 2000.

Yea, there’s some military, but those tend, they say, for Bush vs. Gore. The only real wrinkle is the ballots coming in from Israel, where it’s suspected they’d be for Gore.