Early Voting Ends Today in Texas After Record Turnout

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Early voting in Texas ends in a matter of hours, but a record number of people statewide have already cast early ballots for the Nov. 8 election.
Early voting began Oct. 24 and ends at 7 p.m. Friday.

http://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/Early-Voting-Ending-in-Texas-After-Record-Turnout-399994571.html

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1. The blue spots in red Texas are Dallas, Houston, Austin, San Antonio, and the Rio Grande Valley

http://www.nbcdfw.com/news/politics/Early-Voting-Begins-Monday-Oct-24-for-November-General-Election-397970201.html

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2. From the Austin American-Statesman:

Record numbers of Texans have already cast their votes for the Nov. 8 election, including about half of the voters in Travis and Williamson counties.

More than 4 million Texans — well over the 2008 early voting record of 3.5 million — had voted in the state’s 15 largest counties by the end of the day Thursday, according to the most recent data available from the Texas secretary of state office. That reflects a 41 percent turnout of the registered voters in those counties.

The turnout in Travis County was about 49.5 percent by press time Friday evening, with 360,879 voters having cast their ballots since the start of early voting Oct. 24. Those figures didn’t include the last few hours of early voting and the mail-in ballots that would be tallied at day’s end. Polls were slated to close at 7 p.m.

Still, Travis County had already surpassed its early voting turnout of 37.4 percent in 2012 and was approaching its 2008 early voting turnout of 49.6 percent.

More at http://www.mystatesman.com/news/news/local-govt-politics/early-voting-wraps-up-in-texas-with-record-turnout/ns4LX/ .