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
I believe there are better Angels matter of time
Wow! Thats quite a rant! Another unhinged liberal lol. I suspect this one actually sits on a city council or a county council. Settle down it will be ok.
Dem voters are declining because they are not allowed to harvest vote from cemeteries 6 months before elections.
Kamala has raised over a billion dollars! Outspending Trump 3 to 1. The media has completely sold out for her, yet here we are and it’s a tie! Why? I watched the CNN town hall. She’s a horrible candidate. She can’t think on her feet. Word salad after word salad. She won’t answer a question! There are small town mayors more articulate than her. I can’t believe that she could lose to Trump. It’s crazy! Any other Republican candidate would be crushing her.
Bernie, where can I take my kids trick or treating this weekend?
Trump is the Republican Party. The GOP has not been been about small government or fiscal restraint for decades.
It is about whatever the Orange Goofball says it is.
Trump is a fascist!
Trump is Hitler!
Trump’s followers are Nazis.
This is Kamala’s campaign of Joy! This is her desperate closing argument? I had so much hope for her. She has ran one of the worst presidential campaigns in history. She’s a mediocre walking word salad. LA Times, Wash Post, South Florida Sentinel refuse to endorse. Teamsters refuse to endorse! Why? She’s awful! If she loses I’ll be pissed. I can’t stand Trump. We should have had a primary of some sort.
Jill Stein voters viscerally hate Ds. Libertarians are actively campaigning for Trump. This is what's happening.
Ok. Republicans are sick of the last three years. We are sick of open borders. We are sick seeing children abused and killed. We are sick of seeing woman abused and killed by illegal immigrants. We are sick of the lies including that about abortion. We are sick of the trillions of dollars in debt. We are sick of food and gas prices. We are sick of home prices. And yes we believe children should not read certain books when they're in elementary school! We believe in the right to bear arms but acknowledge no one is helping the mental health crisis in our country. But criminals will get guns no matter what is done. We don't care who people love or what sex they want to be but don't make me call someone by their pronoun and don't expect me to pay for children and criminals sex change operations . We are sick of politicians who promise the world and don't deliver. Trump delivered. We are sick of calling someone fascist and a threat to democracy when in fact we are starting to believe the Democrats are the threat. We believe in the constitution and the supreme Court as it stands and how our forefathers laid out. We believe in our country and love our country
Any person with any brains can see what democrats did to this country since Obama took over, add Biden and if Harris wins we are done.
the dem in 11:56 is an asshole Kamala is the most stupid person ever to run for the presidency and that is just after Biden
According to the dems Trump is Hitler but he is the most popular president in the eyes of the people of Israel The dems are pretty student right Bernie.
Amen
Agreed that the shift of the republican party towards intrusive government is troubling. But the evangelical vote puts them over the top so they cater to that divisive crowd. Sad. Certainly not the republican party i belonged to my whole life. Count me as an “I” who only registers with a party to vote in primaries.
Kudos to the election office in Northampton County. I voted today on demand and it went smoothly. Everyone working was informative, friendly and professional. Wonder how many registered voters crossed party lines voting. Numbers reported now assumes there are no crossovers.
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