So far, 1 in every 9 El Paso early voters has been under age 30. In 2014, it was 1 out of every 20. The percentage of under 30 voters has grown each day during the early voting period. 2/
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A thread updating the numbers for my El Paso voting trend story earlier this week for @abc7breaking. Through 4 days of early voting, More than 7,700 people under 30 have cast ballots (it was 2,200 in all of 2014 early voting). @maddow @kylegriffin1 1/
https://www.kvia.com/government/election/record-early-voting-in-el-paso-driven-by-young-irregular-voters/822769922 …
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54% of the El Paso County early voters did not vote in the 2014 midterm election, at least not in this county. 15% didn't vote in El Paso in the 2016 presidential election. Again, those percentages have been going up each day of early voting. 3/
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So the trend I reported earlier this week is actually accelerating. Younger, more infrequent voters are driving an unprecedented turnout surge in El Paso, which has long had one of the worst turnout rates for large urban areas. 4/
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I can't get reliable race/ethnicity data in
@EP_Elections voter files, but given that El Paso County is 85% Hispanic, this young, irregular surge in voting is almost certainly overwhelmingly Hispanic. 5/Show this thread -
Younger, Hispanic and irregular voters are groups that Democrats have long targeted, with little success. El Paso is home to
@BetoORourke, so the surge may be more intensified here than elsewhere in TX. Wish someone would do this kind of dive in other county voter files. 6/Show this thread
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