Voting 2: Vote harder
Oct. 18th, 2024 04:16 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
fabrisseApparently 1,000,000 voters have already cast their votes in Georgia. With approximately 7.5 million registered voters in the state, my pack of the envelope number is 13% of total voters have already cast ballots. Based on the way it's being reported, I don't think it counts the absentee/mail-in ballots that may already have arrived. This is pretty huge.
I will say that most of the voting is probably in and around Atlanta. Sis cast her vote today and, like me, it was walk-in/walk-out here in Savannah.
I don't know if this bodes well for a particular party. Historically, absentee ballots have skewed slightly Republican and in person early voting has skewed Democrat. However, based on the number of white folks my age or older that I saw at the polling place, I can't be sure that holds true in Savannah.
Atlanta is a large royal blue dot in red state Georgia. Athens may be purplish with the University being there. Savannah is a small sky blue dot. I drive ten miles in any direction and the Trump signs are large and looming. There's even one on rotation on the main highway into Savannah which makes me shudder every time I see it (mostly because it's promoting lies about the crime rates and job rates).
[BTW, any direction in Savannah, like Boston, means West, South, or North. Ten miles East and I sink to the bottom of the Atlantic.]
I will say that most of the voting is probably in and around Atlanta. Sis cast her vote today and, like me, it was walk-in/walk-out here in Savannah.
I don't know if this bodes well for a particular party. Historically, absentee ballots have skewed slightly Republican and in person early voting has skewed Democrat. However, based on the number of white folks my age or older that I saw at the polling place, I can't be sure that holds true in Savannah.
Atlanta is a large royal blue dot in red state Georgia. Athens may be purplish with the University being there. Savannah is a small sky blue dot. I drive ten miles in any direction and the Trump signs are large and looming. There's even one on rotation on the main highway into Savannah which makes me shudder every time I see it (mostly because it's promoting lies about the crime rates and job rates).
[BTW, any direction in Savannah, like Boston, means West, South, or North. Ten miles East and I sink to the bottom of the Atlantic.]
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Date: 2024-10-18 09:12 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2024-10-19 04:33 am (UTC)Glad to hear so many people are voting; here's hoping for a blue result in the election overall. I know people have worked for months in Georgia to help as many people as possible register and cast ballots.
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Date: 2024-10-20 06:19 pm (UTC)