Notes:

• Miller Library remains the top voting location (so all candidates should have a presence at that location). Bain Center is also a good place to hang out and meet voters. Ridgley’s Run had its second best day of early voting…maybe because I went there yesterday…who knows.
• Speaking of voting…while at Ridgley’s Run yesterday I ran into supporters of Mavis Ellis, Christina Delmont-Small, Vicky Cutroneo and folks supporting “Yes on A”. I was able to take this photo:
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• Early voting by party: (% is of registered voters)
  • Dem – 30,226 (29.42%)
  • Rep – 10,871 (18.93%)
  • Ind – 8,246 (18.72%)
  • Other – 625

• Early voting by Council District: (% is of registered voters)
  • District 1 – 11,098 (26.47%)
  • District 2 – 9,419 (23.48%)
  • District 3 – 8,629 (22.20%)
  • District 4 – 11,177 (27.22%)
  • District 5 – 9,555 (21.11%)
• In Howard County, 24.07% of all registered voters have cast votes. Here are some other counties as comparisons:
  • Statewide – 18.62%
  • Montgomery – 20.10%
  • Anne Arundel – 16.88%
  • Baltimore City – 14.27%
  • Baltimore County – 19.21%
  • Prince George’s – 22.49%
  • Carroll – 13.94%
  • Frederick – 15.30%

As mentioned above, total votes pick up slightly statewide (day 1 – 122,880, day 2 – 123,020, day 3 – 80,283, day 4 – 74,052, day 5 – 102,617, day 6 – 106,668, day 7 – 116,664). Queen Anne’s and Talbot had the highest percentage turnout yesterday…then followed by Howard.

There are still two counties in the state outperforming Howard in percentage of eligible votes cast: Talbot (29.69%) and Queen Anne’s (25.26%).

Democrats in Howard County are really coming out to vote (nearly 30% have already voted through 7 days) and GOP voters remain ahead of Independents with turnout…ever so slightly. I have yet to figure out why GOP voters do not like to vote early…but they do not!!!

A little history you might find interesting: (we should get enough votes today to surpass both these years combined)

In 2014 Howard County had 21,432 votes cast in early voting (10.97% of eligible voters) over 8 days.

In 2012 Howard County had 30,463 votes cast in early voting (16.14% of eligible voters) over 7 days.

Need to know where to vote early in Howard County? CLICK HERE

Learn more about the candidates here

Learn more about the HoCoBOE candidates here

See past articles about early voting: Day 1 & 2 | Day 3 | Day 4 | Day 5 | Day 6

Scott E