Louisiana early voting on pace to break records
Louisiana is only two days into a week-long early voting period, but already it looks like more residents are choosing to cast their ballots before election day than the state has seen in the past. Close to 163,000 people voted Tuesday and Wednesday (Oct. 25-26).
Louisiana voters have already submitted 46 percent of the total ballots turned in during the entire 2012 presidential election early voting period -- and they still have five days to go. If they stay on this pace, it will result in the highest early voting turnout the state has ever seen.
On Tuesday, the first day of early voting, Louisiana residents cast some 85,000 votes. By comparison, they cast 60,000 ballots on the first day of early voting in 2012 and 28,000 on the first day of early voting in 2008.
"It's record-setting," said Meg Casper, communications director for Secretary of State Tom Schedler, of the first day of 2016 early voting.
In Orleans Parish, the pace is even more frenzied. A little more than 15,000 people voted during the first two days of the early voting period, which amounts to about 62 percent of the Orleans Parish voters who participated in 2012 early voting.
In Jefferson and St. Tammany parishes, early voting also seems to be outpacing the 2012 turnout, though not nearly as quickly as it has in Orleans so far.
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