The Command Post
2004 US Presidential Election
« One-Sentence Endorsements | Main | More on Fundraising Trends »
November 01, 2004
Early Voting | Heavy Turnout in Northwest Arkansas

I just spoke with the County Clerks for both Washington and Benton counties (the second and third largest counties in the state, respectively).

In Washington County, the person I spoke with said that, as of close of business on Saturday, 13,371 people had taken advantage of early voting. Business today, is also very heavy. The clerk’s office is on the third floor of the courthouse and I was told that the line extends out of the office, down the stairs all the way to the ground floor and that it has been like this since they opened the doors this morning. They estimate that they are running about 500-600 people through the process every hour. At that rate, they could end up with more than 4,000 voters just today. If that holds, more than 20% of the county’s 88,000 registered voters will not have to worry about waiting at their local polling stations tomorrow.

In Benton County, the story is almost the same. The Clerk’s office reports that they have served more than 15,000 early voters and are also very busy today. They believe they will end up around 19,000 which would, again, be approximately 20% of the county’s registered voters.



Posted by Matthew at November 1, 2004 12:10 PM | TrackBack
Comments
Post a comment

Thanks for signing in, . Now you can comment. (Click here should you choose to sign out.)

As you post your comment, please mind our simple comment policy: we welcome all perspectives, but require that comments be both civil and respectful. We also ask that you avoid the extensive use of profanity, racist terms (neither of which we consider civil or respectful), and other boorish language.

We reserve the right to delete any comment, and to prohibit you from commenting on this site, if we feel you have broached this policy. As a courtesy, we will first send you an email noting a violation so you understand the boundaries. This will occur only once, however, and should we ban you from our comment forums we expect that ban to be permanent.

We also will frown upon those who suggest that we ban other individuals for voicing unpopular opinions, should those opinions be voiced in a civil and respectful manner. The point of our comment threads is to provide a forum for spirited though civil and respectful discourse … it is not to provide a forum in which everyone will agree with your point of view.

If you can live by these rules, welcome aboard. If not, then we’re sorry it didn’t work out, and thanks for visiting The Command Post.


Remember me?

(You may use HTML tags for style)