# How do this year's Early Voting numbers compare to last year's total vote?

**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-this-years-early-voting-numbers-compare-to-last-years-total-vote/470239
**Category:** Factual Questions
**Created:** [October 30, 2008, 12:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-this-years-early-voting-numbers-compare-to-last-years-total-vote/470239 "2008-10-30T12:28:41Z")
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### Author: ![Kalhoun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)
#### Post date: [October 30, 2008, 12:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-this-years-early-voting-numbers-compare-to-last-years-total-vote/470239/1 "2008-10-30T12:28:41Z")

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That pretty much says it all. Anyone have a stat?

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### Author: ![hawthorne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@hawthorne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hawthorne)
#### Post date: [October 30, 2008, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-this-years-early-voting-numbers-compare-to-last-years-total-vote/470239/2 "2008-10-30T13:57:29Z")

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See [here](http://elections.gmu.edu/early_vote_2008.html), although it’s not all that easy to read. The fourth-last and second-last columns in the big table are what you want, I think.

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### Author: ![Kalhoun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)
#### Post date: [October 30, 2008, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-this-years-early-voting-numbers-compare-to-last-years-total-vote/470239/3 "2008-10-30T17:41:06Z")

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Thank you. You’re right…it made my eyes bleed a little, but I think I got the jist of it.