2020 Texas Early Voting Numbers

[The Dog 43805]

I think as long as they never receive the mail ballot then it counts.

[Bookman 4610]

1 hour ago, StassneyHorn said:

1,182,246. Have the highest total of absentee ballots reported to SoS office so far.

Even better. Bexar County had 1,045,357 in 2016.https://www.sos.state.tx.us/elections/historical/bexar.shtml

Texas as a whole had 15,101,087 registered voters in 2016.  https://www.sos.state.tx.us/elections/historical/70-92.shtml

Numbers aren't quite in for 2020, but according to the Washington Post last week, "Just since 2016, Texas has added 1,516,349 voters to the registration rolls, nearly double Trump’s margin of victory in 2016 of 807,179 voters." https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020/10/04/joe-biden-win-texas/

 

 

[StassneyHorn 6540]

Relevant tweet from hour ago. If I remember right the last update in August or September was 16.6

[Ghost of LL 15492]

16 minutes ago, StassneyHorn said:

Relevant tweet from hour ago. If I remember right the last update in August or September was 16.6

This actually has me really worried, because the Republicans were out there and were a lot more aggressive in registering people door-to-door and with targeted outreach over the past several months.

I don't think Democrats should at all be comfortable that their going to get a majority of those new voters.

[atomheartbevo 89447]

Beto, you magnificent bastard.

And I've gotten plenty of different candidates/groups asking us if we are registered, please check, etc., and friends/family have been indicating the same.

Their GOTV efforts have been taken up a notch.

I still think flipping this year is just out-of-reach, but '22/'24 is definitely not.

[atomheartbevo 89447]

7 minutes ago, Ghost of LL said:

This actually has me really worried, because the Republicans were out there and were a lot more aggressive in registering people door-to-door and with targeted outreach over the past several months.

I don't think Democrats should at all be comfortable that their going to get a majority of those new voters.

Trump had Hillary and the olds helping him with voter registration in 2016.

I think the voting we saw in 2018 was a wake-up call for the Rs.  Places like Williamson County should not have been seeing the numbers change, that they did.

I've probably had 15 different candidates and organizations text/call me over the past month, asking if I was registered, etc.

It would be cool if we could get some early voting numbers out of places like Williamson County, that were heavily red in the past, 

Edited October 12, 2020 by atomheartbevo

[atomheartbevo 89447]

My gut says the rural areas are pretty capped - they aren't going to be producing many more votes than they did in 2016 (and that's not a joke about the boomers dying off).

When the Texas SecState releases the final numbers, it will be interesting to see what areas saw an increase over 2016.

[StassneyHorn 6540]

Beto’s group literally doubled their goal from 1 million to 2 million calls tonight for early voting starting tomorrow.

The 300k increase in registered voters has 100k that his PAC traced to him and I have to believe Snapchats numbers helped along with Facebook (even though Facebook is now for the olds).

[Voldemort86 2259]

1 hour ago, Ghost of LL said:

This actually has me really worried, because the Republicans were out there and were a lot more aggressive in registering people door-to-door and with targeted outreach over the past several months.

I don't think Democrats should at all be comfortable that their going to get a majority of those new voters.

I seem to recall Beto and his group bragging about registering over 100K new voters. I’m not sure the exact total, but I can bet that most of these new voters aren’t rural fucktards who will vote republican no matter what.

[tantric superman 4667]

Did some mail drops today in funky garland.  Met a few kind of scary looking hombres but they were all real cool when I handed them the mailer (vote Dem down the ticket).  Kind of pissed I haven't been more involved but it got me motivated to vote this week (hopefully). 

[swraith 336]

I look forward to early voting but I am not going on Day 1. Happy to wait a couple days invade there is an initial surge.

[Celery Man 20886]

I moved into my first home on November 4 2016. Lost my job due to COVID’s effect on the aviation industry. I’m moving to Raleigh for a new position I’m excited about. Tonight is my last night in my house, I have to meet the movers between 8-10, going to try to get to the polling place early enough to vote before then, so hopefully I can skedaddle. Will let y’all know how it goes.

[Celery Man 20886]

Didn’t get there as early as I hoped. Half an hour early at Dittmar, nope. Southpark Meadows...

[atomheartbevo 89447]

Court, all Trump appointees,  reinstated the one drop-off box per county limit Abbott wanted. 

[tantric superman 4667]

Line all the way around the Audelia Branch Library in Lake Highlands.  It's on!

[Celery Man 20886]

The pictures got put out of order on Tapa. Dittmar, the lot was full. SP Meadows - the picture at the front you can see the beginning and end of the line. It goes all the way behind, wraps around the loading area, and comes back to the front of the store.

[TornACL 7676]

Going to the early voting polling locations on day 1 seems like asking for long lines. Like Xmas shopping on Black Friday. Don't we have 14 days of early voting available? 

There is no way I would go on either the first or the last day. 

 

[Voldemort86 2259]

12 minutes ago, TornACL said:

Going to the early voting polling locations on day 1 seems like asking for long lines. Like Xmas shopping on Black Friday. Don't we have 14 days of early voting available? 

There is no way I would go on either the first or the last day. 

 

Yeah I’m avoiding it like the plague the first week.  Going to go on the 19th or 20th and hope for just a decent line. The lines will be crazier than usual because of Covid and Trump being president. It is what it is I guess.

[BradInATX 9208]

Didn’t get there as early as I hoped. Half an hour early at Dittmar, nope. Southpark Meadows...

Did you manage to vote? I just moved from the Dittmar area. The Randall's at Slaughter and Brodie was always really easy to vote at. Little to no lines, although this year might be different. Lotta olds there.

[Celery Man 20886]

No I had to bail to meet the movers at my house. Will try later or tomorrow. Tough to vote since I found out I’m moving past when I trusted I’d be able to get and submit an absentee ballot.

[Your Mom 4797]

1 hour ago, TornACL said:

Going to the early voting polling locations on day 1 seems like asking for long lines. Like Xmas shopping on Black Friday. Don't we have 14 days of early voting available? 

There is no way I would go on either the first or the last day. 

 

To me it’s setting the tone. The long lines make the news, they show that people care, they make it all more visible and make other people more likely to care.  It’s the same way a touchdown on the first play sets the tone and has a bigger impact on the game even if those 7 points don’t count any more than the other 7 scored in the middle of the 3rd qtr. 

[castolon 193]

Voting system down across all of Fort Bend County. It's fine. Nothing to see here. 

[tantric superman 4667]

Plus, long lines give Trump the sads.

[Nice Guy Eddie 13414]

long lines seem to have a self-fulfilling prophecy that the next day and the day after that will also be long. 

I always wondered if some of Beto's popularity on the left and high early vote totals also invigorated the right as they faced the real fear that Cruz could lose.

[SydneyCarton 47884]

Ill post here and in the presidential re-election thread as well:

 

https://www.harrisvotes.com/WaitTimes

[Al Bundy's Napoleon Hand 13546]

6 minutes ago, tantric superman said:

Plus, long lines give Trump the sads.

SAD!

[elfenix 34171]

Ill post here and in the presidential re-election thread as well:

 

https://www.harrisvotes.com/WaitTimes

People love them some west gray multi services center.

 

[SydneyCarton 47884]

3 minutes ago, elfenix said:

People love them some west gray multi services center.

 

Indeed. Fun fact I refreshed it like an hour ago, and it was all green checkboxes. 40 minutes later about 45% of the lines/wait show red. Folks still getting in line. 

[Longhorn_Fan68 33843]

https://countyclerk.traviscountytx.gov/elections/wait-time-map.html

[WBT 20422]

2 hours ago, TornACL said:

Going to the early voting polling locations on day 1 seems like asking for long lines. Like Xmas shopping on Black Friday. Don't we have 14 days of early voting available? 

There is no way I would go on either the first or the last day. 

 

Yeah, seems kind of lookatme.  Especially the lining up at 5 am thing.

[gyroprotagonist 2591]

3 hours ago, tantric superman said:

Line all the way around the Audelia Branch Library in Lake Highlands.  It's on!

it was not that long, but I got there around 9am after dropping kids off at school.  I went the Fetz? Beltline location first and it had a much longer line.  Said nope, and matriculated further south towards home.  No craziness.  I think there was maybe one person there that was not there the vote (and not part the of election helpers).  Holding a sign for a local race.

Took about 30 minutes start to finish.  Seemed like lots of people bringing in their voter reg cards to the polling location.  Line was moderately social distanced.  no one was crowding anyone and everyone had masks on.

Other than garnering sympathy from wearing a longhorn face cover, it was a great experience.  

[mchookem 16219]

3 hours ago, TornACL said:

Going to the early voting polling locations on day 1 seems like asking for long lines. Like Xmas shopping on Black Friday. Don't we have 14 days of early voting available? 

There is no way I would go on either the first or the last day. 

 

me either...however, i am so super proud of my 18 yoa first time voter niece...

after i explained the hoops she'd have to jump through to absentee vote from UNT, and her concern over shenanigans with mail voting, she caught a ride down here this weekend, did her online classes from home yesterday... and apparently stood in line for 2 hours this morning all by herself in north austin to vote before heading back to Denton 😮😍

[Texas73 420]

54 minutes ago, Longhorn_Fan68 said:

https://countyclerk.traviscountytx.gov/elections/wait-time-map.html

Worthless site. We got to the Ben Hur Shrine location at 7:20 and voted at 9:45. Not helpful to say the wait is > 20 minutes. 

[thepop 4409]

Just now, Texas73 said:

Worthless site. We got to the Ben Hur Shrine location at 7:20 and voted at 9:45. Not helpful to say the wait is > 20 minutes. 

It's first day of voting. That's on you.

[Brisketexan 104624]

1 minute ago, Texas73 said:

Worthless site. We got to the Ben Hur Shrine location at 7:20 and voted at 9:45. Not helpful to say the wait is > 20 minutes. 

Yeah, we'll probably vote there.  Two days from now, in the late afternoon.  Gonna let the rush die down.

The daughter, however, had to vote absentee from out of the country.  Filled out and mailed her ballot on the first day possible.  Already has confirmation that it was received.

My elderly parents are voting by mail, but are dropping their ballots off in person at the County office on Airport.

[Texas73 420]

Just now, thepop said:

It's first day of voting. That's on you.

I didn't really mind the wait, my complaint is the site is misleading stating >20 minutes. I would have stood in line for hours to vote against Trump. 

[MidTexHorn 822]

I just moved to  Austin and got online to confirm that my change of address has gone through, but my registration says it's not valid until 10/26 so I'll be waiting until then to vote. Wasn't planning on going today anyway.

I look forward to checking every single damn box for a Democrat after voting 90% Republican for the last 30+ years. Hard to envision what it would take from the Rs to get me back, as I really don't think that will ever be possible.

[Dahobbs 17447]

Wife and I did drive through voting in Harris county this morning. Took about an hour, but we didn't mind since we had the comfort of the car. We needed to get it done early as possible because she is due at the end of month. And, our four-year old was with his grand parents today, so it was an opportune time to get it done. 

[The Dog 43805]

Yeah, seems kind of lookatme.  Especially the lining up at 5 am thing.

I have friends doing this. Y’all do know you have nearly three weeks to vote early, right?

It’s attention seeking.

[JimmyJames 12271]

1 minute ago, The Dog said:

I have friends doing this. Y’all do know you have nearly three weeks to vote early, right?

It’s attention seeking.

Actually it’s Dotard hating. You think any people lined up at 5:00 am in 2016 because they wanted attention? Those people didn’t exist. 
 

Everyone is tired of his bullshit and wants to get back to their regular lives before this insane narcissist invaded every day of our lives with his constant idiocy. 

Thats worth getting in line at 5:00 am for and is not some “look at me” stunt. 

[Longhorn_Fan68 33843]

who gives a shit why or when? we should be celebrating turnout, not demeaning people who decide to vote early. stop being part of the problem.

Edited October 13, 2020 by Longhorn_Fan68

[brakeman 28248]

 

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  texas population 2020 29.90 million
  14,640,000 million texans did not vote in 2016.

   

[tantric superman 4667]

30 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

The daughter, however, had to vote absentee from out of the country.  Filled out and mailed her ballot on the first day possible.  Already has confirmation that it was received.

My elderly parents are voting by mail, but are dropping their ballots off in person at the County office on Airport.

Pues, the voter fraud.  Like nothing you've ever seen.

[Buzzrock 14871]

who gives a shit why or when? we should be celebrating turnout, not demeaning people who decide to vote early. stop being part of the problem.

Gotta be first to post that you’ve voted on Instagram yo!

[Longhorn_Fan68 33843]

1 minute ago, Buzzrock said:

 

Gotta be first to post that you’ve voted on Instagram yo!

 

and? what's the problem?

[BehoId, The Underminer! 11668]

srsly.  if showing off you voted gives you millennial clout, fucking great for us.

[BradInATX 9208]

26 minutes ago, Buzzrock said:

 

Gotta be first to post that you’ve voted on Instagram yo!

 

 

If seeking Instagram likes for their picture of them lined up at 5:30am at the voting place is what it takes to get the youth vote out, we should be encouraging it, not shitting on them. 

[Voldemort86 2259]

Drove by my polling place with no intention to vote today and yeah...... it’s slammed with a wait out the door. Would probably take 3-4 hours to vote.

[Bookman 4610]

I voted today to get it over with. I’d hate to die in a car crash or something and miss my chance.

[gmr548 16513]

Voted today because a polling place very near me had a

 

Use your county's wait time maps and be willing to go the extra mile (literally - an extra couple miles saved me 45 minute one the runoff in Austin). It's better for everyone.