{"id":175599,"date":"2026-02-22T17:41:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T17:41:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/175599\/"},"modified":"2026-02-22T17:41:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T17:41:07","slug":"texas-early-voting-continues-into-day-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/175599\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas early voting continues into day 5"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">LAREDO, Tex. (KGNS) &#8211; Early voting continues in Texas, with updated turnout figures released for Saturday, Feb. 21.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">On the Democratic side, just over 1,300 people cast in-person ballots. A small number of mail-in ballots were also received.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">About 190 Republicans showed up to the polls on day five. No mail-in ballots were received on the Republican side.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Across both parties, nearly 11,250 people voted in total during the early voting period.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">For more headlines, click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kgns.tv\/news\/local\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2026 KGNS. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LAREDO, Tex. (KGNS) &#8211; Early voting continues in Texas, with updated turnout figures released for Saturday, Feb. 21.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":175600,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[3462,2065,409,7685,7686,70802,39580,27,29,28,69715,3860,11150,33188],"class_list":{"0":"post-175599","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-texas","8":"tag-ballot","9":"tag-early-voting","10":"tag-election","11":"tag-kgns","12":"tag-laredo","13":"tag-mail-in","14":"tag-primary","15":"tag-texas","16":"tag-texas-headlines","17":"tag-texas-news","18":"tag-turnout","19":"tag-vote","20":"tag-voter-turnout","21":"tag-webb-county"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175599\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/175600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}