We received a 47 absentees in the mail today.  3 were postmarked after the deadline so won’t be counted.  Of the others we have 23 Democratic and 21 Republican ballots in.  One of the Democratic ballots is a Federal only ballot so it won’t affect the Governor’s race.

As I mentioned in my post yesterday, the chances of affirmatively requested absentees being returned is much higher than the automatic absentees.  That’s bearing out here as 19 out of the 21 Republican ballots were from voters who made a request specifically for this election.  Two were from military people.

Two additions to my post yesterday.  First, we may receive even fewer late overseas ballots because we were able to get them out a little earlier than in some previous years.  Second, I believe it’s five of those outstanding absentee voters actually showed up and voted on election day.

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