Primary Day in Texas is inching closer.<\/p>\n
The governor’s race, all seats in the U.S. House of Representatives, and local state legislature seats are up for grabs.<\/p>\n
Primary Day on Tuesday, March 3, paves the way for the candidates to earn a place on the general election ballot in November.<\/p>\n
Voters told ABC13 why they have and will continue to practice their civic duty.<\/p>\n
“Why I am voting is that all of us here in the United States have the responsibility to make our voices heard,” Steve Dorcheus said.<\/p>\n
Early voting has ended, but the numbers could give people a look into what to expect on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
According to the Harris County Clerk’s Office, from Feb. 17 to Feb. 27, there was a total of 346,797 early voters.<\/p>\n
220,284 Democrats cast their ballots and 126,513 Republican voters cast their ballot.<\/p>\n
There are multiple issues that are important to voters, according to what they told ABC13.<\/p>\n
“Number one getting paid, number two schools, number three protecting our community, and number four, which is the last one, is healthcare,” Ingrid Fernandez said.<\/p>\n
Polls open at 7 a.m. on Tuesday, March 3.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Primary Day in Texas is inching closer. The governor’s race, all seats in the U.S. House of Representatives,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":186539,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[6231,56,58,57,22954,2860],"class_list":["post-186538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-abc13","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news","tag-state-legislature","tag-u-s-house-of-representatives"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186538","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=186538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186538\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/186539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}