Hello, fellow DKos friends:
At this point in 2012, 663,000 people had voted early across 15 Texas counties — around 7.7 percent of registered voters. This year, it’s 969,000 — nearly 10 percent. We’ve picked up 300,000 in early voting. For example, in El Paso, an area that is roughly 75% Hispanic, about 30% of those are new voters who have never voted before.
I think unless you live in Texas, you don’t understand how draconian Trump’s “Wall” is. It would be like living in Berlin in the cold wall, and every county near the wall is having record early voting turn-out.
Here’s a quick round-up of the record-shattering early voting in Texas. . .
EL PASO--El Pasoans continued to shatter early voting records on Friday as more than 13,000 voters flocked to the polls, the most ever on a fifth day of an early voting period. Overall, almost 80,000 people had voted by Friday, an increase of 77 percent over 2012 and 68 percent above 2008, which produced the highest-ever early voting level in El Paso County.
www.elpasotimes.com/…
Harris County (Houston) is bracing for a weekend of record early voting
www.khou.com/…
HARRIS COUNTY, Texas - On Friday, the man in charge of overseeing elections in Harris County says the nation’s second largest voting entity will probably set new records all weekend long. “The record of in-person voting in early voting is 87,000,” said Stan Stanart, Harris County’s Clerk. “We are likely to break that record on this Saturday.”
Cameron County (Brownsville and the Rio Grande Valley area)
www.valleymorningstar.com/…
BROWNSVILLE — The first four days of early voting for the 2016 general election have surpassed all records the Cameron County Elections Office has on file.
25,750 registered voters opted to cast early ballots this week and Thursday’s turnout totaled 5,830.
