Early Voting by the Numbers: October 30

Connecticut voters had cast 438,451 ballots through all methods by the end of Friday, October 30, according to the Secretary of the State's latest daily release. That total covers early votes and returned absentee ballots statewide, with one day of early voting still to go.

Early voting accounts for the bulk of it: 388,342 early votes had been cast through Friday, including 40,815 on Friday alone. Absentee ballots returned stood at 50,109, out of 71,597 issued.

By party registration among early voters, Democrats account for 186,985 votes to date, Republicans 76,101, unaffiliated voters 120,069, and voters registered with other parties 5,187. Those figures describe who voted, not how anyone voted — Connecticut ballots are secret. Another 4,876 early voters used same-day registration.

West Hartford leads the state's towns in early votes to date, with 8,558, followed by Norwalk at 8,036 and Milford at 7,540. The release lists only the ten towns with the most early votes, so it carries no Brookfield-specific figure.

The figures are preliminary: towns report on different schedules, and the Secretary of the State revises the totals as reports come in. The totals above use the release's cumulative column throughout.

Sunday, November 1, is the last day of early voting in Brookfield, from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. at the Town Hall Meeting Room 133, 100 Pocono Road. There is no early voting on Monday, November 2. Election Day is Tuesday, November 3, with polls open 6 a.m. to 8 p.m.