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15 May 2017 — 1516 mdt

Latest turnout and absentee ballot statistics for Gianforte v. Quist

As of late Sunday night, half of the absentee ballots for the 25 May special congressional election had been returned, and the current registered voter turnout for the election was just over 25 percent. The voting eligible population turnout was 21.8 percent.

Flathead County’s return rate no longer is a low side outlier. But some ballots mailed on 5 May still have not been recorded as returned.

I’ll update these numbers at the end of the week. Here are the latest graphs: