Every weekday through November 4, Bleeding Heartland will post updated totals absentee ballots requested and returned, statewide and in Iowa’s four Congressional districts. Follow me after the jump for the latest tables. I took the numbers from the Iowa Secretary of State’s website. Previous tables are here.
As of September 28, registered Iowa Democrats have requested about 40,000 more ballots than Republicans have. Democrats also claim to have generated a higher percentage of ballot requests than Republicans among Iowans who did not vote in the 2010 midterm election.
Absentee ballots requested by Iowa voters as of September 28, 2014
| Congressional district | Democrats | Republicans | no-party voters | Libertarian | Iowa Green | total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IA-01 | 21,408 | 9,993 | 9,243 | 40 | 31 | 40,615 |
| IA-02 | 24,403 | 9,974 | 9,784 | 33 | 37 | 44,281 |
| IA-03 | 21,810 | 10,956 | 7,138 | 36 | 26 | 39,966 |
| IA-04 | 14,316 | 11,222 | 5,904 | 21 | 13 | 31,476 |
| statewide | 81,937 | 42,145 | 31,969 | 130 | 107 | 156,288 |
Absentee ballots received by Iowa county auditors as of September 28, 2014
| Congressional district | Democrats | Republicans | no-party voters | Libertarian | Iowa Green | total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IA-01 | 2,730 | 1,633 | 763 | 6 | 1 | 5,133 |
| IA-02 | 2,267 | 1,069 | 477 | 5 | 3 | 3,821 |
| IA-03 | 1,424 | 1,181 | 386 | 4 | 1 | 2,996 |
| IA-04 | 1,282 | 1,238 | 416 | 1 | 1 | 2,938 |
| statewide | 7,703 | 5,121 | 2,042 | 16 | 6 | 14,888 |
3 Comments
Ballot numbers
kinda makes you take a double take on that DM Register Poll dont it.
abgdinstr Mon 29 Sep 10:51 AM
I don't know
I want to see more polling. Selzer has had some misses but people tend to remember only the polls she got right. Braley needs to go into the election with a large early vote cushion for sure.
Another big question mark surrounds the no-party voters who are casting early ballots. In 2012, Democrats did a much better job identifying and mobilizing their independent supporters to vote early. Democrats claim that most of the no-party voters who have requested early ballots this year were IDed by their canvassers. Can’t tell from publicly available data whether that is accurate.
desmoinesdem Mon 29 Sep 11:10 AM
What's confusing about these numbers...
What we can’t tell from these numbers is how many people have voted who were targeted marginal voters. For example, my husband and I voted on Friday at the Polk County Election Office. We are an added number to the AB requests and a voted ballot. But we are not marginal voters and were not targeted for early vote. So while the overall numbers look very good, it is hard to get to the root of whether it’s working or not because we’re missing a variable with these reports. A variable that is the province of each political party, not information you can get from any county auditor.
julie-stauch Mon 29 Sep 11:59 AM