The midterm election is less than a week away, and voter turnout in Oregon is up by 124,056 ballots compared to this time in the last midterm election.
According to a news release from Oregon Secretary of State Dennis Richardson’s office, the ballot tally at the end of yesterday, Tuesday Oct. 30, stood at 657,480. That’s significantly more than the 533,424 ballots turned in at this point in the 2014 midterms.
Richardson’s office credited the spike in early turnout to population growth and increased voter registration. It’s worth noting that about the same percentage of voters have turned in their ballots at this point as they did in previous midterms—but there are a lot more registered voters in Oregon now.
If you aren’t among the 24 percent of Oregon voters who have already turned in their ballots, you can do so any time before 8 pm on Tuesday, Nov. 6.
And if you’re looking for advice on which bubbles to scribble in on your ballot, look no further than the Mercury‘s own election guide.
And yet there are 2,691,637 registered voters in the state of Oregon as of September 2018.