And with today and tomorrow left for the early vote, this is surely a pretty cool thing to read from the Travis County Clerk's office:
Travis County voters broke previous Early Voting turnout records Wednesday. More than 229,500 voters have cast a ballot, topping the 2004 record of 222,085. More than 15,000 votes had been cast mid-way through the voting period Thursday.
Travis County Clerk Dana DeBeauvoir said that vote totals are steadily climbing toward what she expects to be a fantastic finish to the Early Voting period on Friday.
"We won't be surprised to see 50,000 voters on the final day--about twice the first-day turnout," DeBeauvoir said. "We're still trying to spread the word that voting early is going to be more convenient than voting on Election Day."
If you haven't voted yet, make sure you set some time to do so later today, tomorrow, or Tuesday. If you want to vote in costume tomorrow, feel free. (Just don't dress as a party, candidate, with a mask, or with mask on, or with a weapon.) Regardless of whether you look like yourself when you cast a ballot or not, I think we all know the importance of your ballot being cast. |
