Final Count Of Registered Voters Tops 1.6 Million People
By: Import User
Updated: January 7, 2009
Arkansas Secretary of State Charlie Daniels
says the final count for registered voters this year is
1,696,277. That total includes more than
170,000 people who filed new voter registrations since the
start of the year.
In a survey done by The Associated Press while the early voting
polls were still open on Monday, county clerks statewide said
274,409 Arkansans had cast ballots. That balloting began
with the start of early voting on October 18th. Thirty county
clerks had absentee ballots counted, too, for another
15,880 votes.
Daniels predicts 70 percent of registered voters will cast
ballots today. That means 900,000 Arkansans will be at the
polls today and that a total of 1.2 million people will vote.
