Around one-fifth of Maine’s registered voters submitted absentee ballots in advance of polls opening today.
By a tally from the Maine Secretary of State’s office yesterday, 169,782 absentee ballots had been accepted, a number making up about 18% of registered voters by the latest available count, in mid-October.
Here’s how those ballot returns broke out along party (and non-party) lines:
| Requested | 76,372 |
| Accepted | 67,925 |
| Rejected | 785 |
| Not returned | 7,662 |
| Requested | 55,535 |
| Accepted | 49,411 |
| Rejected | 514 |
| Not returned |
5,610 |
Other* absentee ballots
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| Requested | 63,357 |
| Accepted | 52,718 |
| Rejected | 571 |
| Not returned | 10,068 |
*”Other” includes voters registered as: Americans Elect, Green Independent, and Unenrolled.
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Absentee Voter Data, Nov. 5, 2012 – Maine Department of the Secretary of State
