Early voting notebook: Monroe County turnout so far in 2024 outpacing 2020 numbers

A Friday evening email from Monroe County election supervisor Kylie Farris delivered the daily totals for the first week of early in-person voting in Monroe County for the Nov. 5, 2024 election.

Those daily totals added up to 4,249 ballots cast over four days, starting Tuesday (Oct. 8).

Based on B Square reporting from 2020, the total of early in-person voting through the first four days of early in-person voting that year was 3,646. So this year’s 4-day total is about 16 percent better than four years ago.

To match the 2020 early in-person total of 22,953, the daily totals over the next three weeks (18 days) of early voting would need to average around 1,038.

In addition to the 22,953 people who voted early in person in 2020, another 14,800 voted by mailed-in absentee ballot. So, in Monroe County, about 60 percent of the 63,624 people who voted in the 2020 general election, cast a ballot before Election Day.

Here’s a breakdown of the remaining early in-person voting hours in Monroe County