drivelocity.com » Sacramento County http://drivelocity.com senseless nonsense in a nonsensical world Fri, 01 Jul 2011 20:10:46 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 25% of Sac Co. Voters Have Voted Already! http://drivelocity.com/politics/25-of-sac-co-voters-have-voted-already/ http://drivelocity.com/politics/25-of-sac-co-voters-have-voted-already/#comments Tue, 04 Nov 2008 19:21:20 +0000 drivelocity http://drivelocity.com/?p=102 I am an absentee voter, though this is the first year that, as far back as I can remember, I’ve mailed in my ballot. Usually, there are some issues I’m not sure of until the last minute, or I’m lazy. Whatever the case, I’ve almost always walked my ballot into the nearest polling location. This year, I did far more early research into the individual propositions and wanted my ballot to get in early. I don’t know if it will actually be counted any earlier than if I had walked it in, but I feel much better about mailing it in this year.

There has been a lot of coverage on the news about early voters, whether they’ve mailed in their absentee ballots, or went directly to the Sacramento County Elections Office. I’ve been curious as to the actual numbers and I finally have a tally, thanks to KCRA.

Around 300,000 absentee ballots were sent out to Sacramento County voters and more than half have been returned so far. That 150,000 makes up 25% of the county’s voters. Compare that to 38% of voters in El Dorado County and 41% of Placer County voters. For Sacramento County, this stands to be the largest voter turnout in recorded history!

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