Election 2012 12:09 pm Mon September 24, 2012  Early Voting
Grows In Popularity Across Country  Originally published on Tue
September 25, 2012 12:11 pm      MICHAEL MCDONALD: Oh, thank you
for having me.  BLOCK: And when you look at Colorado, would you
say it's an outlier? Are there other states that have such a
high percentage of early voters?  MCDONALD: Well, Colorado
offers a particular form of early voting that's proven to be
very popular in Western states and that's a combination of
allowing people to request a mail ballot for any reason
whatsoever and also allowing people to permanently sign up to
receive that mail ballot so they just - they sign up once and
they continually receive that mail ballot in future elections.
And in states that have adopted this, Washington being another
important state out in the West, what we've seen is an increase
in early voting from election to election as more and more
people choose that option to receive the ballot by mail. And so
in Washington now, they essentially r