| MySanAntonio.com gives us an update on turnout that I find interesting though just a small example of what may be going on in the 24 counties of District 23.
Bexar County elections administrator Jacque Callanen predicted that some 20,000 residents of the county would vote today. She noted that 18,500 people had voted early and an additional 2,300 had voted by mail.
She said there are 259,000 eligible voters in the county in District 23, which stretches from San Antonio's far Northwest Side to the South Side and west to El Paso. The district includes nearly 700 miles of the Texas-Mexico border.
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One election official on the Northwest Side, considered a Bonilla stronghold, said that 180 voters had turned out as of mid-afternoon. Earlier in the day, he had predicted as many as 500 voters in the two voting precincts, which combined had more than 5,000 registered voters would cast ballots in the hotly contested congressional race.
Elections officials in West Texas said they were not expecting a heavy turnout, but they cautioned that the vote tabulation might be slow because many residents were using paper ballots rather than voting on electronic machines.
Don't expect the early results to be accurate of the entire district. That last line is key as this is a huge district and man of the smaller counties will be using paper ballots. San Antonio should be faster but has had a history of being slow itself compared to the rest of the urban metro's in the state.
But here's what I see as good news and you can compare the two counties to the chart to the post below this one on this page.
Paula Hoover, the Hudspeth County clerk, said fewer than two dozen of the 1,594 registered voters had turned out to vote early. She expected about 110 people in the sparsely populated county would cast ballots today.
Hudspeth County was Bonilla's 3rd best county %-wise with 414 total votes cast on Nov 7th.
In nearby Brewster County, Isabel Segura LaSoya, the elections administrator in Alpine, said about 600 people had voted, "a heavier than normal turnout," given the election was midweek in the middle of December.
Brewster was a swing county on November 7th, the closest to the average. |
