Nearly 1 in 7 early voters in El Paso, Texas have never voted before
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https://www.kvia.com/government/election/thousands-of-el-pasoans-are-casting-their-first-vote-in-this-election/840573035
EL PASO, Texas - About one in every seven El Pasoans who voted so far in the midterm election cast their first-ever vote in the county, an analysis of El Paso County Elections
Department data shows.
Through Thursday, 16,746 of the 123,588 ballots in early voting came from people with no prior history of voting in El Paso. Those new voters – when combined with people who vote
occasionally, but not in every election – have helped El Paso shatter midterm voting records.
About six-in-ten of this year's early voters didn't cast a ballot in El Paso in the 2014 midterm election. Nearly one-in-five didn't vote here in the 2016 presidential election.
El Pasoans have already cast more votes through eleven days of early voting than they had in any prior midterm election, early voting and Election Day combined. The previous high
was 103,000 votes in 2002. El Paso is on a pace to cast 180,000 or more ballots this year.
Some of the new voters may have cast ballots in other locations before moving to El Paso, but the vast majority of these voters seem to be longtime El Pasoans casting ballots for the
first time anywhere.
The largest group of new El Paso voters is under age 30, but they come from all ages. About 11 percent of first-time El Paso voters this year is over age 65.
"My children and my husband always vote, but I couldn't because I was not a citizen. I became a citizen this year and registered right away," said Delia Reveles, 74, who lives in the
Lower Valley. "I wanted to be able to vote along with my family. I was very happy to participate. I am very worried about the things the president is saying about Mexicans and
immigrants. I want to make sure that I voted so that I can elect people that support me and my family."
Concern about Trump, and a desire to support hometown Democratic senate candidate Beto O'Rourke, appear to be motivation for many new El Paso voters.
Cunningham said he attempted to vote by mail in the 2016 presidential election, but was unsuccessful. This year, his vote was received, county records show. All the first-time voters
interviewed for this story expressed hope that their vote will inspire others to do the same.
"Hispanics are strong and we have a lot of us living here in the United States," Reveles said. "But we don't vote and we can't complain if we don't vote. My message is to vote and show
everyone that we have a lot of power, that we deserve respect."
Knock em dead, Beto!
https://twitter.com/PoliticsReid/status/1058532803263062019
Almost eight times as many youth voted in Tennessee as in 2014, thanks Tswift
538 still says that there has to be some systematic polling error towards the democrats to have a shot at winning the senate but I really hope everything breaks the right way for them come tuesday because the gop has done everything they can to denigrate and fuckover my generation especially with this congress and president waging a culture war against us.
A culture war is the only way they can win without going left and shifting the overton window, makes sense for them to do so if you only care about winning.
Most of them are russian bots.
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