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I have been using Tom Bonier's Target Early tool on his Target Smart website: targetearly.targetsmart…
You can slice and dice the early voting data many ways using simple drop down boxes and radio buttons. On of the more interesting views is looking at the gender gap, since I think many unaffilated women - especially young ones - are goin…
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I have been using Tom Bonier's Target Early tool on his Target Smart website: https://targetearly.targetsmart.com/g2024
You can slice and dice the early voting data many ways using simple drop down boxes and radio buttons. On of the more interesting views is looking at the gender gap, since I think many unaffilated women - especially young ones - are going to be voting for Kamala and against Trump. The early vote gender gap is bigger in NC (10% higher for women than men) than nationwide (8.1%) and it is bigger still in Mecklenburg County (13.1%) where I live.
Yesterday afternoon I did a shift of poll observing and the first-time voters were through the roof! (The poll workers ask anyone who hasn't voted previously in the county if they are first-time voters and if they say yes it gets announced to the room). The chief judge told me that they had processed 25 (!) same day registrations - a record in his memory. I checked yesterday's vote count for this EV site and these same-day registrations accounted for over 3% of the votes at this site.
Why yesterday? It turns out that yesterday was Vote Early Day (https://voteearlyday.org/about-us/).