{"id":57707,"date":"2024-11-04T17:06:24","date_gmt":"2024-11-04T17:06:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=57707"},"modified":"2024-11-04T17:06:24","modified_gmt":"2024-11-04T17:06:24","slug":"early-vote-smashes-records","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=57707","title":{"rendered":"Early vote smashes records!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>ABC News reported this morning that 47% of all Texas registered voters cast their ballots early in advance of Election Day.<\/p>\n<p>Think for just a moment about that. Nearly half of all the state&#8217;s registered voters have spoken out. Does this mean that the early-vote strategy is going to produce a record overall turnout when all the ballots are counted?<\/p>\n<p>Nationally, the early-vote turnout exceeds 78 million votes. That is slightly more than half of all the ballots cast in the 2020 presidential election.<\/p>\n<p>This well could bode for a serious uptick in overall voter participation.<\/p>\n<p>I have long been critical of early voting as a way to draw more people to the polls. Historically, early voting has enabled Americans to cast their ballots without having to wait in long lines on Election Day.\u00a0 It hasn&#8217;t boosted total vote turnout.<\/p>\n<p>This year might be different &#8230; to which I offer a huge<em> hooray!<\/em><\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ABC News reported this morning that 47% of all Texas registered voters cast their ballots early in advance of Election Day. Think for just a moment about that. Nearly half of all the state&#8217;s registered voters have spoken out. Does this mean that the early-vote strategy is going to produce a record overall turnout when &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=57707\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Early vote smashes records!<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[9543,8053,5137],"class_list":["post-57707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-political-news","tag-2024-election","tag-early-vote","tag-voter-turnout"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57707"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57707\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57708,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57707\/revisions\/57708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}