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LiberalArkie

(16,388 posts)
Sun Nov 3, 2024, 05:42 AM Sunday

Early voting in Arkansas

https://election.lab.ufl.edu/early-vote/2024-early-voting/2024-general-election-early-vote-arkansas/

2024 General Election Early Vote – Arkansas

Total Early Votes: 688,733
In-Person Early Votes: 666,714
Mail Ballots Returned: 22,019
Mail Ballots Requested: 30,338
Last Updated: 11/1/2024
Source: Arkansas Secretary of State

Total Voted by Party Registration
Party Total
Voted Percent
Democrat 37,832 5.5 %
Republican 66,410 9.6 %
None/Minor 584,491 84.9 %
TOTAL 688,733 100 %


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LiberalArkie

(16,388 posts)
1. The "Independent" status of people goes back to the era of the
Sun Nov 3, 2024, 05:48 AM
Sunday

Conservative Democratic Party under Orval Faubus and the Dixiecrats. People who were voting Republican (or liberal) back then had problems voting if they registered as Republicans. Now we liberals or Democrats registered as Independent for the same reason. (And it allows us to vote in the Republican primary to mess them up) but they do the same.

ArkansasDemocrat1

(3,213 posts)
4. The she-Faubus is gonna keep taking us back to the bad old days
Sun Nov 3, 2024, 09:27 AM
Sunday

We already have relaxed child labor laws thanks to Grifterbee

RazorbackExpat

(172 posts)
5. I'm still pissed off because her dad only became governor
Mon Nov 4, 2024, 05:44 AM
Monday

because of Ken Starr's witch hunt. He targeted the then-Democratic governor Jim Guy Tucker just because the lieutenant governor at the time was her dad. If the lieutenant governor at the time had been a Democrat, Starr wouldn't have pursued that witch hunt.

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