What to Make of Early Voting?

RealClearPolitics ^ | October 27, 2010 | Sean Trende

[neverdem]

In recent days, a debate has broken out over the issue of early voting. Partisans from both sides have trumpeted certain early results, while election watchers have scrambled to decipher just what, if anything, these early vote numbers tell us about what's going to take place six days from today.

Politico's Molly Ball helpfully compiled early voting returns in states that track returns by partisan identification. It's prudent to stipulate up front that while early voting tallies do give us some hard data we can use to gauge the composition of the electorate, we can't make definitive conclusions about the shape of the 2010 electorate based on these numbers...

[TitansAFC]

-—”I believe that we have surpassed Illinois as the vote-fraud capitol of the US”-—

Ha!

We got you beat with just two districts in Cook County alone. I was a poll watcher in 2008 and they made me VERY uncomfortable (read: felt like raising an issue would get me attacked).

Report to the cops? Good luck with that.

[rockrr]

Well OK then. I guess we’ll just have to try harder ;-)

[ripley]

Early Voting; an opportunity to calculate the number of fraudulent votes needed to overcome non-Democrat voting results without exceeding the bounds of reasonable percentages of deviation in polling error. (one can’t make voter fraud obvious, ya know?)

/s/

IMHO