Third of voters in Central Texas cast ballots in early voting's first week

[RandySF]

With less than two weeks of early voting to go, Central Texas counties are on track to record their largest early voter turnout in recent memory.

Williamson County is leading the way, with ballots from nearly one-third of its registered voters already accounted for.

With 16.9 million voters registered statewide, more than 4 million Texas, or about 24%, cast a ballot in the first week of early voting, according to Stephen Chang, communications director for the Texas Secretary of State.

Before 2019, the state only collected data for a slice of the largest counties, which included Bexar, Dallas, Tarrant, Travis and Harris.

By comparison, he said that for those five counties the first week of early voting in 2016 was around 1.68 million and in 2020 that is about 1.74 million.




https://www.statesman.com/news/20201019/third-of-voters-in-central-texas-cast-ballots-in-early-votingrsquos-first-week

[Demovictory9]

1. Wow

[tanyev]

2. Isn't Williamson County very red?

I live in another very red county, Collin County, and we are seeing record turnout, too. I remain hopeful about the high turnout in Texas, but it has to be acknowledged that quite a bit of it is not for Biden.

[IHaveNoName]

3. My South TX county has around 60K registered voters...

...and has already had about 14K early votes (in person and returned mail-ins) cast.