October 27, 2004
Early Vote still Fast and Furious
By Karl-Thomas Musselman
The Secretary of State has new numbers good as of yesterday. 1,534,963 total votes cast among the top 15 counties with an 18.87% turnout. When you count in the rest of the state, I would be willing to guess that actual turnout is a bit higher as the smaller counties in Texas have had a history of higher turnout than the Urban ones (like sad Harris County and Hidalgo County).
Travis County here isn't slacking at all, yesterday there were about 18,000 cast, today around 20,000 cast when you add in the by-mail votes. I expect it to climb here over the next three days. On campus, yesterday's vote, 1350, was 1 shy of the highest which was the first day of voting.
Posted by Karl-Thomas Musselman at October 27, 2004 02:50 PM
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From KHOU
County Clerk recommends alternative sites as record numbers of early voters continue to swell
Both Monday and Tuesday of this week yielded unprecedented numbers for early voters in Harris County.
The total number of early voters in Harris County as of October 26 was 240,846 with a record high of 46,393 voting that day.
Harris County has now cast more ballots than any other county during the early voting period. If the turnout trend holds, it will have more votes cast in the November 2 Harris County General Election than at any other point in its history. Turnout levels are expected to increase as the early voting deadline nears.
I did notice that Harris got on the ball with it's turnout this week. Historically (and still the case now) it is trailing other counties in the percentage turnout category. As for Hidalgo, it may be a cultural thing, as I know a lot of Hispanics here in Austin like to vote together or on elections day (in addition to Democrats also liking to wait until Election more so than Republicans).
