Among the requested ballots, registered Republicans are continuing to be 40 percent, while registered Democrats continue at 31 percent and registered unaffiliated voters at 28 percent, with registered Libertarians at less than one percent.
The return and acceptance rate is 35 percent for Democrats, 30 percent for Republicans, and 28 percent for unaffiliated voters.
The racial composition of requested mail-in ballots is:
White voters continue to dominate this voting method, with black voters at 9 percent.
In comparison to four years ago this same day, the requested ballots (based on sent date) is comparable, with about a 3 percent increase this year over 2012's same-day totals, but differences continue to trend in party registration:
Requests from registered Republicans are 81 percent of where they were this same day four years ago, while requests from registered Democrats and unaffiliated voters are at 116 and 138 percent, respectively.
The 54,000 accepted ballots are below where the returned and accepted ballot numbers were four years ago (79 percent of where they were in 2012). Among the party registration:
In comparison by party to 2012's same day numbers:
Registered Republicans are 58 percent of where they were on the same day in 2012, while registered Democrats and unaffiliated voters are 101 and 108 percent of their same day 2012 numbers, respectively.
The outstanding ballots are still heavily Republican:
And the voting methods from 2012 by 2016 voters requesting mail-in ballots continues to show new voters to mail-in balloting from four years ago:
Updated: based on the comment below, here are the absentee mail-in ballots requested by female registered voters by party registration:
