There were more mail-ballots cast in Texas alone than in the entire last election.
Being in Texas (not a native Texan myself, although one of my native Texan children was able to vote this year) I was curious about this knowing that there was a certain amount of back and forth about mail-in voting this year (the Texas supreme court determined that fear of the pandemic was not sufficient reason to request a mail-in ballot, although technically the reason for a mail-in ballot request cannot be challenged/checked . . .). So I searched.
I found that there were 9.7 million early votes this year, up from 8.9 million total votes in 2016. And the breakdown was about 8.7 million in-person early votes and 1 million mail-in. At least in Harris county the early voting was via electronic voting machines so I assume the counts from those should be available pretty quickly and “only” 1 million early mail-in votes need manual counting for what it’s worth.
data was from TexasTribune early voting tracker
