People can vote three ways in Pa. You can request a mail-in ballot, vote at your precinct on election day or physically appear at the elections office, request your ballot and vote then and there. I call this early voting, but technically, your vote is not counted until 7 am on election day. Approximately 3,700 people have voted ballot on demand in NorCo as of Thursday, according to Executive Lamont McClure. I've been telling you about it the past two days. The Exec told County Council that the number of people voting at the courthouse is a significant increase over the "few dozen" who voted that way in the Presidential race four years ago. He said the county has managed to keep up with the demand with help from volunteers from other departments, including cabinet heads.
McClure also advised Council that there have been 57,996 requests for mail-in ballots (MIBs). Thus far, the elections office has sent out 57,664 ballots. Essentially, elections officials are getting them processed and sent almost immediately after they are received. So far, 38,438 MIBs have been returned. That's well below the number of ballots received four years ago. In the 2020 Presidential, the county received and counted 73,914 MIBs, most of which came from Democrats. Unless there's a sharp increase in requests over the next few days, that is a bad sign for Democrats, who tend to favor MIBs. The cut-off date for MIB requests is October 29.
McClure also said there are 234,379 registered voters in NorCo, of which 87,527 are Republicans (37%) and 99,182 are Democrats (42%). There were 227,371 registered voters four years ago, of which 45% were Democrats and 35.8% were Republicans.
Democrats are continuing a trend of losing registered voters while Republicans are gaining them.
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I fully concur with your statement “Dems losing voters.” If I may add, this statement is holding true not just in Northampton County, PA but in hundreds of Countys and other jurisdictions all across America. The surge away from this Democrat Party policies and behaviors is striking.
I wonder if Democratic policies of the last number of years has anything to do with democrats losing voters
Statewide more Dems and Repubs are switching to 'other' in voter registration . People are more and more annoyed by the hyper partisan politicians.
Meanwhile the Northampton County Republicans are busy bringing court cases against each other and promoting pornography.
"Democrats are losing registered voters, while Republicans are gaining...' huh?
Imagine that! Seems to go against the narrative, no?
I'm not sure who the democrats represent anymore? The republican party has certainly shifted their position on labor and still represent the supply side folks. Who do the dems support other than students that made poor choices on over priced degrees and every court case filed to styme progress.
Hopefully the newly registered Republicans will be anti-MAGA and lead the party back to sanity and the Democratic Party will find leadership to restore the party to the ideology of FDR and JFK so all this partisan hate caused by Trump can return our democracy to normalcy.
People are sick of the far left. Mainstream Dems need to take their party back from the AOC crowd.
Well, one thing to keep in mind is, in 2020, many people voted by mail out of necessity, because they may not have felt safe going in person to the polls because of COVID. Now, with the pandemic mostly behind us, more people are probably willing to go vote in person.
And Republicans from Trump’s influence
People are sick of the far left? What does that even mean?!
They are sick of women who want rights to their own bodies and equity with their health care?
They are sick of scientists who are trying to save the planet and Dems providing support to help climate change?
They are sick of Dems who want their children safe at school and support appropriate gun legislation?!
They are sick of Dems who don't support book bans?!
I thought republicans were about less government. But that's not the case, is it?!
Republicans want big government in our uterus', they want to tell us what books we can read, they want religion in schools, they don't want people to be able to love whoever they want to love, they want to control everything and everyone.
This dem is sick of fascists. I can't wait to see Kamala crush the Trumpster fire on Election Day.
Never will happen too far gone
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