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Nearly 18 percent of all registered voters in Okmulgee County have already cast their ballots for the Nov. 3 general election.
early voteFrom Thursday through Saturday, 3,382 ballots were turned in with most of those being in-person voting.
There were 2,143 voters making their decision known personally at the Okmulgee court house while 1,240 voters mailed in their ballots. The mail-in absentee ballots can still be received at the county election board no later than 7 p.m. Tuesday.
The in-person voting set a new record for Okmulgee County. In the 2016 election, only 1,400 people came to the court house to vote.
By party those voting either by mail Saturday or in-person include: 1,490 republicans, 1,602 democrats, 21 libertarians and 270 independents.
Okmulgee County has 9,149 registered democrats, 7,438 republicans 2,632 independent party members and 74 libertarians.
Statewide republican voters outnumber registered democrats according to state election board numbers. There are 1,008,569 registered republicans, 738,256 democrats, 11,171 libertarians and 332,111 independents.
By 5 p.m. Saturday, 429,073 mail-in or in-person votes had been cast for the general election in all 77 Oklahoma counties.
The polls in each precinct open at 7 a.m. Tuesday morning and will close at 7 p.m.