More than three weeks still remain before the Nov. 5 general election, but records are already being shattered for early voting turnout around Wyoming.
Laramie County announced that turnout on Day On of early voting in Laramie County on Tuesday set a record, as 754 ballots were cast. According to Laramie County Clerk Debra Lee, the previous first-day record, set in 2020, was 313.
By Friday afternoon, the early voting line at the Laramie County Clerk’s Office was out the door. Lee told Cowboy State Daily that 2,672 ballots had been cast for the first week so far, also a record.
In Laramie County, 438 absentee ballots and 48 ballots sent to residents stationed overseas were returned as of Friday afternoon, slightly higher numbers from what was seen in 2020. That’s significant, considering a whopping 13,025 absentee ballots were sent out for the 2020 election, mostly as result of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Platte County Clerk Malcolm Ervin said similar records were likely broken in his county for the first week of early voting.
As of Friday, Platte had 552 early ballots recorded. This compares to the roughly 2,000 ballots that were cast in his county through the entire 45-day early voting period in 2020.
