| When Chris Bell ran for governor, he could have tagged voter turnout as one of the things we rank near last in the country for. (Except maybe, Thank God for Arizona?)
Hope Andrade, our Secretary of State, has predicted a voter turnout of 68%. We turned out at a 56% clip in 2004. We haven't voted in percentage numbers as high as predicted since 1992, when 2/3 of the prominent candidates were Texans.
So, simply put, 68% would be extraordinary. But it could be even higher. In our most populated 15 counties, 42% of their registered voters have ALREADY casted their ballots. If that number is consistent across the state, and if turnout becomes 68%, that would mean that 62% of voters early voted. I think it's easily possible that our election-day vote count can exceed the early-vote count.
Is 70 percent a possibility? Get out the vote tomorrow and find out. |
