{"id":11712,"date":"2018-10-30T12:14:15","date_gmt":"2018-10-30T16:14:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=11712"},"modified":"2018-10-30T12:14:15","modified_gmt":"2018-10-30T16:14:15","slug":"early-voting-day-5-stats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=11712","title":{"rendered":"Early Voting Day 5 Stats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/MD-EV-Day-5.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11713\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/MD-EV-Day-5.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1692\" height=\"956\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/MD-EV-Day-5.jpeg 1692w, https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/MD-EV-Day-5-300x170.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/MD-EV-Day-5-768x434.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/MD-EV-Day-5-1024x579.jpeg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1692px) 100vw, 1692px\" \/><\/a>At the end of yesterday, 9.3% of registered Maryland voters had taken part in early voting. Talbot continues to lead the early voting pack as over one-fifth of its registered voters have now cast ballots. Allegany trails at the end with just 3.6% having participated in early voting. Indeed, all Western Maryland counties lag in early voting.<\/p>\n<p>Most counties with hot executive races &#8211; Howard, Baltimore County and Anne Arundel &#8211; continue to have above average turnout but Frederick continues to be an exception. Montgomery has very average turnout despite its comparatively unusual three-way contest.<\/p>\n<p>Most counties in CD 1 are also voting at high rates. Dorchester and Cecil continue to lag with Wicomico just below average but closing the gap with the state average compared to yesterday. It&#8217;s interesting to see Somerset in the above average category as this relatively poor county often has low turnout.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the end of yesterday, 9.3% of registered Maryland voters had taken part in early voting. Talbot continues to lead the early voting pack as over one-fifth of its registered voters have now cast ballots. Allegany trails at the end with just 3.6% having participated in early voting. Indeed, all Western Maryland counties lag in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=11712\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Early Voting Day 5 Stats<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[217],"tags":[1571],"class_list":["post-11712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-turnout","tag-early-voting"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4mKJE-32U","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11712"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11712\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11715,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11712\/revisions\/11715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}