One week into early voting in St Louis County, more people have already cast a ballot than in all of early voting four years ago, during the last midterm election. “Turnout has been strong,” says Eric Fey, the Democratic director of elections for St. Louis County. “We just don’t know what that means yet.”
In 2022, the county had seven locations where 56,000 voters cast a ballot ahead in the two weeks before election day. Since early voting opened last week Tuesday, over 60,000 ballots have been cast at the county’s 21 early voting locations.
However, Fey says that we don’t yet know if this means that the midterms in the county will have high turnout, or if the county will just see fewer people cast a ballot on election day…