The Secretary of State’s office predicts up to 15 percent of registered voters will cast a ballot in the December 10th election. Deputy Secretary for Outreach Joel Watson says 110-thousand votes were cast for early voting either in person or by absentee ballot from November 26th through December third.
“And that’s about 71,000 people voted in person early, and were looking at a 12 to 15 percent turn out total for the election,” said Watson.
Watson says just under 39-thousand votes were absentee ballots. When you compare the predicted turnout for this election to previous December elections Watson says it’s about on track. In 2018 he says turnout was almost 18 percent and in 2020 after the presidential election when there was a congressional runoff and amendments on the ballot.
“The total turnout statewide was 15.7% for that race,” said Watson.
When you look at the party breakdown for the early voting for the December 10th election Watson says 47 percent were Democrat and 39 percent Republican. He says typically more Democrats vote early and there are more registered Democrats in the state versus Republicans.
“However in the November election this year for the first time we could find registered republicans outvoted registered democrats in early voting and on election day,” said Watson.
Polls open Saturday at 7 am and close at 8 pm. For more information and your voting location visit GeauxVote.com
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