The last day of early voting is always the busiest. (Well, other than the 2020 election, but you get the idea.)
Early voting for four Houston ISD board seats and local council races ended Tuesday with 21,732 ballots cast, according to unofficial county totals.
The final day of voting saw its largest turnout for in-person balloting, with 2,851 voters hitting the polls, about 1,200 more than the next highest one-day total.
Election day will be Saturday for the HISD seats, individual city council races for Bellaire and Missouri City, and a trustee race in the Houston Community College System that were forced into runoffs after none of the candidates in the contests secured at least half the vote during the Nov. 2 election.
Polls will be open Saturday from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. To find your ballot, go to harrisvotes.com
You can see the final totals here. While the mail and in person totals were almost identical as of Saturday, there were about 5K in person votes cast on Sunday through Tuesday, but only a thousand mail ballots were returned. I thought we’d get to about 20K votes by Tuesday, so I was a bit pessimistic, but in the ballpark. My estimate from the weekend of 30-35K total votes overall may be a bit low as well, but I’m sticking with the idea that more than half of the votes have been cast already. Put the over/under at 35K, and we’ll see what happens. That would make turnout for the runoff about 75% of turnout from November for the affected districts. We’ll know by Sunday. Have you voted yet?
4 days and counting………
Will we know by Sunday? You’re giving Isabel Longoria way too much credit considering how much she botched the last election.
A clean sweep from Republican anti-CRT candidates would not be a good omen for democrats in 2022
I have been in public ed for nearly thirty years now and 99% of the school boards were controlled by White men. So, are they ones approving CRT and all of these filthy library books? Or is it Texas politicians who are primarily White men who run the state? You all have been duped repeatedly and you are still falling for it.
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