Here are the latest figures out of Nevada.
For these daily reports, I will only be tracking Clark County and Washoe County. Together, they account for just shy of 90% of all registered voters in Nevada.
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First let's start with the numbers from Clark County:
Here are the cumulative early voting figures:
Dems 91,629 (50.45%)
Reps 57,395 (31.61%)
Inds 32,538 (17.92%)
TOTAL 181,562
Here are the additional early ballots cast since the last daily report:
Dems +14,969
Reps +9,434
Inds +5,866
In the previous daily report, Democrats bested Republicans by 5,202 ballots cast. In this one, Democrats outstripped Republicans by 5,535. In fact, the Republican percentage went down among early voters since the previous report. These are very solid numbers for us in Clark County, especially considering that Romney is contesting Nevada much more vigorously than McCain did four years ago.
Now, here are the cumulative figures, including mail-in ballots:
Dems 105,338 (49.75%)
Reps 69,294 (32.73%)
Inds 37,107 (17.52%)
TOTAL 211,739
As of this report, 24.86% of the 851,803 active voters in Clark County have voted. That is huge. At this point in 2008, about 17% of all active voters had voted.
Now, let's take a look at Washoe County.
Here are the cumulative early voting numbers:
Dems 20,224
Reps 19,205
Inds 7,752
TOTAL 47,181
Here are the new early votes since the last report:
Dems +3,432
Reps +3,396
Republicans had bested us the previous three days, so this is welcome news.
Here are the cumulative figures, including mail-in ballots:
Dems 24,298
Reps 23,458
Inds 9,407
TOTAL 57,163
As of now, this constitutes 23.7% of the 241,459 active voters in Washoe County. At this point in 2008, only 15% of the active voters had voted.
Here is a link to the Washoe numbers: http://www.co.washoe.nv.us/...
Here is a link to the Clark numbers:
http://redrock.clarkcountynv.gov/...
Here is a link to the early voting numbers from 2008:
http://nvsos.gov/...