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  "schema": "ctm-early-vote-download-v1",
  "state": "AR",
  "state_name": "Arkansas",
  "checked_at": "2026-10-27T13:29:16Z",
  "license": "Free to use with credit to Call the Map (callthemap.com/early-vote).",
  "credit": "Call the Map (callthemap.com/early-vote)",
  "office": {
    "name": "Arkansas: absentee voting",
    "url": "https://sos.arkansas.gov/elections/voter-information/absentee-voting"
  },
  "notes": [
    "Party is the party a voter registered with, never the ballot cast.",
    "Comparisons are with the same day of voting in 2022 and 2024 (or the same days before the election where a state's first day of voting is not on record), as on callthemap.com/early-vote.",
    "Ratios are this year's ballots over the earlier year's at the same point; gaps are D share minus R share of ballots, in points.",
    "Counts from civicAPI (civicapi.org), which compiles them from state and county election offices; Call the Map does not read this state's own file.",
    "Counted: mail ballots returned plus early in-person votes.",
    "civicAPI takes one snapshot a day; its counts are dated the day before the snapshot."
  ],
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    "counts_through": "2026-10-25",
    "days_out": 9,
    "voting_day": null,
    "file_as_of": "2026-10-27",
    "checked_at": "2026-10-27T13:29:16Z",
    "stale": false,
    "stale_since": null,
    "stale_reason": null,
    "downloaded_by_hand": false,
    "scope": null,
    "total": 279707,
    "mail": 5339,
    "in_person": 274368,
    "dem": 19526,
    "rep": 24485,
    "unaffiliated_other": 235696,
    "gap_now": -1.77,
    "vs_2022_ratio": null,
    "vs_2022_change": null,
    "gap_2022": null,
    "vs_2024_ratio": null,
    "vs_2024_change": null,
    "gap_2024": null,
    "summary_year": null,
    "counties_compared": null,
    "counties_total": null,
    "count_via": "civicapi",
    "source_name": "civicAPI, compiled from state and county election offices",
    "source_url": "https://civicapi.org/early-vote",
    "office_name": "Arkansas: absentee voting",
    "office_url": "https://sos.arkansas.gov/elections/voter-information/absentee-voting",
    "credit": "Call the Map (callthemap.com/early-vote); counts from civicAPI (civicapi.org/early-vote), compiled from state and county election offices"
  },
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      "row_type": "daily",
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      "date": "2026-10-20",
      "days_out": 14,
      "voting_day": null,
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      "county": null,
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      "mail": 3849,
      "in_person": 111654,
      "dem": 8815,
      "rep": 10055,
      "unaffiliated_other": 96633,
      "file_as_of": null,
      "count_via": "civicapi",
      "source_name": "civicAPI",
      "source_url": "https://civicapi.org/early-vote",
      "credit": "Call the Map (callthemap.com/early-vote); counts from civicAPI (civicapi.org/early-vote), compiled from state and county election offices"
    },
    {
      "row_type": "daily",
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      "date": "2026-10-21",
      "days_out": 13,
      "voting_day": null,
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      "rep": 14299,
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      "file_as_of": null,
      "count_via": "civicapi",
      "source_name": "civicAPI",
      "source_url": "https://civicapi.org/early-vote",
      "credit": "Call the Map (callthemap.com/early-vote); counts from civicAPI (civicapi.org/early-vote), compiled from state and county election offices"
    },
    {
      "row_type": "daily",
      "state": "AR",
      "date": "2026-10-22",
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      "voting_day": null,
      "complete_day": true,
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      "file_as_of": null,
      "count_via": "civicapi",
      "source_name": "civicAPI",
      "source_url": "https://civicapi.org/early-vote",
      "credit": "Call the Map (callthemap.com/early-vote); counts from civicAPI (civicapi.org/early-vote), compiled from state and county election offices"
    },
    {
      "row_type": "daily",
      "state": "AR",
      "date": "2026-10-23",
      "days_out": 11,
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      "file_as_of": null,
      "count_via": "civicapi",
      "source_name": "civicAPI",
      "source_url": "https://civicapi.org/early-vote",
      "credit": "Call the Map (callthemap.com/early-vote); counts from civicAPI (civicapi.org/early-vote), compiled from state and county election offices"
    },
    {
      "row_type": "daily",
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      "source_name": "civicAPI",
      "source_url": "https://civicapi.org/early-vote",
      "credit": "Call the Map (callthemap.com/early-vote); counts from civicAPI (civicapi.org/early-vote), compiled from state and county election offices"
    }
  ],
  "counties": []
}