so far because folks in florida love mail-in balloting, 125,000 votes have been cast absentee and early voting. so far it looks like in terms of the ballots that have been returned, advantage to the republicans. the question, will that be enough to push david jolly over the top? what we re seeing in ground on election day is very low turnout. in fact the supervisor of elections in pinellas county says only 2.6% of registered voters have shown up today so far. that was as of 10:00 this morning. also unknown, among those early and absentee ballots how many will crossover for the other party and how many votes the libertarian candidate, lucas overby grab from either side? it will be a very, very tight race. we should know soon after 7:00 tonight who wins. we should point out in this particular precinct which is split evenly between republican, democrat and no party affiliation, only 35 people have shown up so far today. jon? jon: wow. 35. that is off year election.
all the way until election day. there is a direct impact between the campaign cash and the mai mail-in balloting. they told us it makes the home stretch longer and tougher for candidates to pin down theee electric right. in colorado 60% of registered voters will cast their ballot by mail and when doing it this way they can vote right away and send it in or they can wait all the way up until election day november 2nd and tkrof it off. colorado s secretary of state tells us that this can lessen the blow of bad news hitting a campaign in the last new days of the election. if it s your opponent getting the bad news that s bad for you, if it s are if it s your camp people have already voted and it s not so bad. jon: 60%, more than half of the voters in colorado voted this way, early voting?
like it. reporter: 32 states across the country are participating in mail-in balloting. megyn: thank you so much, alicia. now it sounds like a chilling morning here at home. faisal shahzad was sentenced to life in prison for trying to blow up a bomb in times square. but of did not go quietly. here is we had to say to the judge in open court. brace yourselves. because the war with muslims has just begun. consider me only a first droplet of the flood that will follow me. so, is this a chilling prediction or is it just a crazy rant? does this guy know something we don t? neil livingstone, it s easy to dismiss him as a lunatic. anybody who wants to blow up a bomb in times square.