MI: Rise in absentee voters may have already decided this election

[RandySF]

NOTE: I spoke to a Dem. consultant back in MI I've know a long time. He said last week that Dems lead by 5 among those who've already ballot and by 15 among those who had yet to turn them in.

News Flash: The outcome of the race for governor has already been decided but the results have not been announced.

Hidden away in the bowels of city clerks’ offices all over the state are a bundle of absentee votes. Just sitting there waiting to be counted and those ballots could swing the election either way since they could make up over 25% of the electorate. And in a close election, which this one appears to be, it could decide the outcome.

Which is why both political parties have boosted their get-out-the-absentee vote effort with the Democrats, at least giving the impression that they are more aggressive about it. At the very least they have been more vocal about it.

The R’s just announced they have “touched” 3.5 million would-be voters up from 3 million four years ago but it's not clear what percentage involved the AV ballot option.

Liberal film producer Michael Moore sent out an urgent email urging his friends to use a nifty new hi-tech gizmo to obtain an AV ballot by just clicking on your computer or smart phone or whatever gadget you own.


http://www.mlive.com/lansing-news/index.ssf/2014/10/tim_skubick_rise_in_absentee_v.html

[Takket]

1. that's pretty impressive that they can calculate the lead amongst ballots not actually turned in lol

[Jackpine Radical]

2. Ya know, if the general Republian fuckover of MI isn't enough to generate a Dem win,

then we're probly never gonna win again anywhere, no matter what the Republicans do to us.

[catbyte]

3. Boy that's for sure what with that heinous EM law that they reinstated after we voted it down.

Same with the wolves. Bagger bastards. I do love that absentee voting is up 9% in Detroit, also here in Grand Rapids--and they ain't Snyder supporters.