Posted on 07/26/2002 9:44:11 AM PDT by hsmomx3
Edited on 05/07/2004 5:21:00 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
Only about 5,000 people in Maricopa County have requested early ballots for the Sept. 10 primary election, far below the county's projection.
"It's a lot lower than we expected," said Maricopa Elections Director Karen Osborne. "I was expecting about 10,000 by now." It's too early to predict how many of the county's 1.2 million registered voters will actually cast a ballot, Osborne said. But she estimates that about half of those doing their civic duty will do so by mail before Election Day. Early voting begins Aug. 8 for the Sept. 10 primary and Oct. 3 for the Nov. 5 general election. "Early voting has become exceedingly popular," said Osborne, adding that the number of early ballot requests will increase substantially when candidates turn them in to her office.
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