A quick note on next week’s city election: Things look good for three Democrats—Regina Romero, Shirley Scott and Paul Cunningham—who are seeking reelection against the GOP team of Bill Hunt, Margaret Burkholder and Kelly Lawton.

As of yesterday morning, more than 17,500 Democrats had turned in their ballots, compared to about 9,700 Republicans and roughly 7,900 independents. So unless there is off-the-charts crossover voting or the Republicans are capturing virtually all of the independents, it would seem that the Democrats have a solid lead at this point.

That’s not to say that things couldn’t shift dramatically, but at this point, the Democrats are proving more capable about locking in early votes.

More about the City Council races here and here.

Meanwhile, in the county bond election: More than 306,000 early ballots were sent out by Pima County Recorder F. Ann Rodriguez earlier this month. As of this morning, 98,605 had been returned and processed for tabulation, according to Rodriguez’s office.

This article appears in Oct 22-28, 2015.

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8 replies on “City Election: Early Ballots Heavily Favor Democrats”

  1. The headline could be construed as election tampering. No results should be discussed until polls close.

    In your opinion do “early votes” count for more than votes on election day? If not, please don’t report them.

  2. It seems that it would make sense to take the time to call those 17,500 democratic voters and ask them under oath if they voted in this election and if they mailed their own ballot in. Also did they receive any “coaching” or monetary gifts for voting?

  4. The Tucson Weekly once again rears it’s ugly head for the status quo and cheerleads the potential re-election of leaders who have destroyed Tucson. You piece of journalistic garbage are accountable only to your dropping circulation. Just imagine if you charged money for your left wing rag. Stick to entertainment and stay out of politics. I’m so glad to be gone after giving my heart and should to Southern Az for 35 years and left because of the failed policies of these losers you so wholeheartedly support.

  5. My thought would be to do 50 or 75 random callings to verify quality of votes. Elections have never been run well in this town. Why is that? It sure his devastated voter turnout, as many know their votes don’t matter.

  6. And just because someone is a registered Democrat, why should you believe it is a Democratic candidate who will receive the vote. Again, Tucson is the only city in the state where the elections are by party. It shouldn’t be an I hope Tucsonans will vote the bums out.

  7. They won’t. Or they will make it appear the voters won’t. We will never know. With such low turnouts scrap the Diebolds and do a hand count. 24 hours is all it would take.

  8. Like how a judge declared Tucson’s voting system to unfairly give your Precious Democrats advantage UNCONSTITUTIONAL. Your facade declared democrats are about to lose their crookedly gained seats.

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