N.J. voter turnout at 3%; 15% of all voters received VBM ballots

With four weeks remaining until Election Day, New Jerseyans have returned 196,429 vote-by-mail ballots, according to an analysis by VoteHub.

Of those ballots, 122,543 (62.7%) are from registered Democrats, 45,474 (23.3%) are from registered Republicans, and 27,411 (14%) are from unaffiliated voters.  About 14% of all registered voters statewide have requested mail-in ballots; that number is actually close to 15% when roughly 470,000 inactive voters are deducted from the total .

Republicans are returning their VBMs at a slightly higher rate than Democrats: 25.7% compared to 23.5%.

But Democrats have a massive 57.7% to 19.5% advantage in the number of ballots mailed by county clerks.  Out of 906,708 ballots mailed, 521,514 went to Democrats and 177,191 to Republicans.  This represents a confluence of a voter registration advantage in a state with 832,537 more Democrats than Republicans, and a general distrust in vote-by-mail ballots by Republicans nationally.

This brings voter turnout so far to 3% of all registered voters in New Jersey.

You can search for VBM returns by municipality on the VoteHub site: click HERE.