By Adam Pagnucco. Early vote turnout in the 2024 general election was historically strong in both Montgomery County and Maryland, suggesting high turnout in the election overall. Let’s start with…
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Turnout in the 2024 Primary, Part One
By Adam Pagnucco. Precinct data for the 2024 primary election is out and we will be analyzing it over the course of several posts. Let’s start with turnout. The pie…
MoCo Early Voters Are Not Who You Think
By Adam Pagnucco. Early voting wrapped up yesterday and the State Board of Elections has posted results. Folks, we can say this: a wild race just got a whole lot…
Early Voting Day 1 Turnout is Way Up
By Adam Pagnucco. Yesterday was the first day of early voting in the 2018 primary and it was a BIG day. The number of people who voted was a whopping…
By Adam Pagnucco. One of the purposes for the disclosure of political contributions is to help voters decide whom to support in elections. In order to serve that role, contributions…
What Percentage of Voters Will Vote Early?
By Adam Pagnucco. Long ago, the overwhelming percentage of voting occurred on Election Day. Absentee and provisional ballots played roles mainly in tight races. So campaign activities were performed on…
A Critical Error in Early Voting
By Adam Pagnucco. On Saturday, I was given a ballot by election officials at the Wheaton early voting site that would have allowed me to vote for John Sarbanes for…
Democrats performed better in early voting than Republicans despite subpar turnouts in Montgomery County and Baltimore City.Here is a chart contrasting voter registration and early voting percentages by party. The…
Interpreting the Early Votes
Right now, MoCo political junkies are eagerly scanning the early voting results. But they should beware because they are probably skewed in important ways.The early voting totals, which will probably…
Early Vote Results
The MoCo Board of Elections has just posted its early voting results. We anticipate that early votes will comprise somewhere between 5% and 10% of total votes. The results are…