{"id":30654,"date":"2025-11-01T08:16:06","date_gmt":"2025-11-01T08:16:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/30654\/"},"modified":"2025-11-01T08:16:06","modified_gmt":"2025-11-01T08:16:06","slug":"arena-issue-drives-high-voter-turnout-in-bexar-county-news-radio-1200-woai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/30654\/","title":{"rendered":"Arena Issue Drives High Voter Turnout in Bexar County | News Radio 1200 WOAI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The arena issue led to a higher voter <a href=\"https:\/\/earlyvotecounts.bexar.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">turnout <\/a>than usual for an off-year election.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We think it&#8217;s really important to get our voices out there especially in our local elections,&#8221; one voter told our TV partner, News 4. &#8220;I&#8217;m really adamant that San Antonio does not need Prop A and B.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Bexar County elections administrator, Michele Carew said more than 143,000 people participated in early voting.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What we&#8217;ve noticed the most in this election is that voters are turning out. We&#8217;ve been comparing our numbers to 2023, and we surpassed the entire early voting period over the weekend.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The arena issue led to a higher voter turnout than usual for an off-year election. &#8220;We think it&#8217;s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":30655,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[6920,6919,6918,6921,223,82,84,83,154,1594,272,172],"class_list":{"0":"post-30654","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-antonio","8":"tag-charity-mccurdy","9":"tag-charlie-parker","10":"tag-chris-duel","11":"tag-mr-t","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-san-antonio","14":"tag-san-antonio-headlines","15":"tag-san-antonio-news","16":"tag-sports","17":"tag-spurs","18":"tag-traffic","19":"tag-weather"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30654","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=30654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30654\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}