TEXAS \u2014\u00a0Early voting is off to a busy start across Texas, with more than two million voters casting their ballots as of Thursday, Oct. 22.<\/p>\n
Five days into the early voting period, some of the state\u2019s largest counties are reporting strong participation.<\/p>\n
In Harris County, more than 384,000 people voted in person through Thursday. Dallas County reported more than 248,000 in-person voters, while Bexar County, home to San Antonio, recorded nearly 177,000. In Central Texas, Travis County reported more than 158,000 in-person voters.<\/p>\n
Those county totals do not include mail-in ballots.<\/p>\n
Harris County also marked a historic start to the week, with more than 104,000 people voting on Monday alone, setting a first-day turnout record for a midterm election.<\/p>\n
The strong turnout comes amid earlier concerns about a voter registration backlog linked to software issues at the Texas Department of Public Safety.<\/p>\n
However, Harris County election officials said the voting process has been running smoothly. Earlier this week, provisional ballots accounted for less than 1% of all ballots cast in the county.<\/p>\n
Early voting continues across Texas through Oct. 30, ahead of Election Day on Nov. 3.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TEXAS \u2014\u00a0Early voting is off to a busy start across Texas, with more than two million voters casting…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":475103,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1658,132,144990,1570,102,138,223,287,82,27,29,28,1569,835],"class_list":["post-475102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-app-local-state-politics","tag-austin","tag-barbara-campos","tag-ctv","tag-dallas","tag-el-paso","tag-news","tag-politics","tag-san-antonio","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news","tag-texas-what-you-need-to-know","tag-vod"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475102","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=475102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475102\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/475103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=475102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=475102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=475102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}