Early Voting Brings Out Less Than 5% Of County Voters

From MD BOE

On Friday the Maryland State Board of Elections released the results of last week’s early voting. Montgomery County has 573,431 registered voters and 26,707 (4.66%) casted their ballots early at polling sites. This puts the County below the unofficial State participation rate of 6.33% (219,601 of 3,468,287 potential voters). Although they released the numbers, the Board of Elections will not be releasing the results until after all the votes are cast tomorrow on Election Day.

Here’s the breakdown of early voter turnout:

6,601 at Bauer Drive Community Center in Rockville
4,656 at the Executive Office Building in Rockville
5,309 at the Germantown Recreation Center
3,951 at the Marilyn J. Praisner Community Recreation Center
6,190 at the Silver Spring Civic Building

Democrats voted early in greater proportion than Republicans:

Democrats 17,978 of 324,195 registered voters ( 5.55%)
Republicans 5,127 of 123,253 registered voters (4.16%)

In District 17, 3,226 of 70,412 (4.58%) registered voters already cast their vote.

This means many of us still need to vote tomorrow, November 2, 2010. The polls open at 7 AM and close at 8 PM. Although I tried early voting in the Primaries, I’ll be voting with my sons in tow tomorrow. I’ve always enjoyed teaching them to vote by showing them I do.

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