If absentee balloting is any indication, Mainers are voting this year in numbers ahead of 2012, the last presidential election.
As of 5 p.m. Wednesday, over 188,000 Mainers had already cast their votes through absentee ballots — a little more than the total number of absentee ballots cast in 2012.
Democrats make up the largest number, a little over 42 percent of the early voters, with both Republican and unenrolled voters making up about 27 percent each.
Voters have until the end of business Thursday to request an absentee ballot. But even with the large turnout so far, Maine may not break the 2008 record, when nearly 237,000 Mainers cast absentee ballots.
