New Jersey Republicans notched a more competitive in-person voting turnout so far relative to 2021, but are still lagging behind overall in their early vote position compared to four years ago thanks to their big deficit with mail-in ballots, new data shows.

On Saturday, the first of nine days of early voting in New Jersey, Democrats eked out a higher in-person voter turnout than Republicans, 42% to 39%, while 19% were affiliated with another party.

Dems clinched an overall raw in-person vote advantage of 2,527, according to data compiled by Michael Pruser, DecisionDeskHQ’s director of Data Science.

But that’s less than the roughly 12 point (44% to 32%) or raw 26,717 in-person voting advantage Dems had when the dust settled on in-person voting in 2021.

Still, the figure only worsens

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