How Negron’s aggressive absentee ballot campaign clinched Senate seat before election day
Wednesday, August 5th, 2009 by George Bennett
Negron: 60 percent of his votes were absentee ballots
Not Republican Joe Negron, who capitalized on absentee and early voting on his way to a landslide victory in Tuesday’s special state Senate election.
Before the polls even opened Tuesday morning in Senate District 28, Negron had locked up 20,273 absentee ballots and 1,682 early votes for his race against Democrat Bill Ramos.
That’s more than twice as many votes as Ramos got for the entire election, according to unofficial returns.
In other words, the 11,584 people who cast ballots for Negron at their precincts on Tuesday’s traditional election day could have stayed home and their candidate still would have won by a fat margin.
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