BREAKING: Mail and Early Voting Has Already Exceeded 2016 in Arlington

[mahatmakanejeeves]

This is probably true all across northern Virginia. I live in Alexandria.

BREAKING: Mail and Early Voting Has Already Exceeded 2016 in Arlington

ARLnow.com Today at 10:00am

The upcoming election is setting up to be one for the record books in Arlington. ... We’re around the halfway point between the start of early voting in September and Election Day on Nov. 3. Yet as of last night, 39,202 mail-in and early ballots had already been cast in Arlington, according to election officials. ... That already exceeds the 37,869 mail-in and early ballots during the entire 2016 presidential general election.

“We’ve never seen volumes this high,” Gretchen Reinemeyer, Arlington’s Director of Elections, told ARLnow this morning. The ballots cast so far represent about 24% of active voters, she noted.

“In 2016, we received a total of 10,922 Mail Ballots and 26,947 voted early,” Reinemeyer said. “As of last night, we have received 20,852 Mail Ballots and 18,350 have voted early.”

The total number of votes cast in Arlington in the 2016 presidential general election was 121,339, a record that seems likely to fall this year given interest in the race and population growth in the county.

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[Yonnie3]

1. I walked by the early voting site and ballot drop in Charlottesville twice today

Not a big crowd like last week, but a steady stream. About the same number of people when I walked back by in 15 minutes. All new people.

There was a power failure for at least an hour this morning that slowed them down. They finally got approval to move to City Hall (has a generator) just about the time the power came back.

EDIT:

I haven't seen local figures other than how many absentee ballots had been requested.

[List left]

2. Like oxygen masks on a plane-Vote first then get everyone you know and everyone else you can to vote

[Loki Liesmith]

3. Are we just cannibalizing Election Day voting though?

[mahatmakanejeeves]

4. I wouldn't phrase it in quite those terms. I want to be sure my vote counts should I be ill

or incapacitated on Election Day such that I can't get to the polls.