You made a REAL difference.  Thank you again for your generous contributions toward this effort.

There has been a huge increase in mail-in-ballots thanks to the Texas Democratic Party’s vote by mail program.

In January, we sent more than 116,000 annual applications to eligible voters so they could vote by mail in the Democratic primary, runoff, and the general election. This set the stage for success this November.

We followed-up that successful program with more than 637,000 applications mailed in September.

You help to make that happen all across the state.

“The number of mail-in ballots received by close of business on the first day of early voting more than doubled from the last midterm elections.” [Corpus Christi Caller-Times,10/23/2014]

“…a surge in mail-in ballots could benefit Democrats more “based on the logic that Democrats are much more active this year than in the past in promoting mail ballots while the GOP does not appear to have ramped up its mail ballot efforts as substantially compared to past elections.” [Austin American-Statesman, 10/23/2014]

“…El Paso and some other counties had a big uptick in mail-in ballots through two days of early voting. At the close of business Tuesday, the number of such ballots received in the El Paso County Elections office was up 146 percent compared with 2010, to 1,919.” [El Paso Times, 10/22/2014]

“Almost 3,000 more mail-in ballots brought the percentage of registered Hidalgo County voters who’d cast a ballot to 4.9 percent — just a touch higher than Galveston County’s 4.82 percent.” [McAllen Monitor, 10/22/2014]

“An additional 5,703 ballots were cast by mail in Fort Bend, up from 4,240 in 2010.” [Houston Chronicle, 10/21/2014]

No matter what happens tomorrow we have built a base for ballot by mail.  That will serve us well in 2016.