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The Early Voting Information Center
We are a non-partisan academic research center based at Reed College in Portland, Oregon.
Professor Paul Gronke and his team conduct research on early voting and election reform, predominantly in the United States. In addition to our scholarly research, we have worked with on projects with the Pew Center on the States, the Federal Election Assistance Commission, and a number of state and local elections offices.
Professor Gronke's academic credentials including his curriculum vita, courses taught, and other research papers can be found at his personal Reed web page.
EVIC researchers for Summer 2013 are Jacob Canter and Chelsea Brossard.
Colorado
Updated 10/31, 11:55pm for typo
The partisan distribution of Colorado’s early voters has been much more equal than in other states. Democrats hold a narrow advantage (though they also have slightly more active, registered voters). There are also a substantial number of unaffiliated voters in this swing state though. The only thing we can really be sure of is that early voting turnout has blown through 2004 levels (see the graph on the right).
Note: the scales above are in thousands, of course!
Mail-in balloting remains the most popular form of early voting in Colorado—for both parties—and the Secretary of State’s office reports that of the 1.6 million mail ballots they sent out, only 1 million have so far been returned. I expect these numbers to continue to rise over the last few days.