Know Before You Go: Early Voting Reminders, Turnout Expectations
North Texas counties reported record first-day turnout as printer problems delayed some voters in Collin County, officials said.
- Early voting for the Nov. 3 general election began Monday, Oct. 19, and continues through Friday, Oct. 30, with registered voters able to cast ballots at any designated county location.
- State officials confirmed that a registration backlog affecting more than 500,000 applications was cleared by Oct. 15, following a Texas Department of Public Safety software error that delayed processing.
- Voters must present one of seven approved photo IDs to cast ballots; Tarrant County commissioners closed 92 voting sites to save $1 million, leaving 224 locations open.
- Several counties reported record-breaking first-day turnout Monday, with Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins noting 76,079 residents voted and more than 10,000 Nueces County voters cast ballots.
- The Nov. 3 election includes critical races for U.S. Senate and statewide offices, with midterms determining party control of Congress amid heavy early voting engagement.
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The early vote in Texas breaks the record of participation, with strong figures in key Democratic and Republican counties alike. Talarico leads in Paxton polls, in a crucial contest for the Senate, while Trump supports the Republican candidate.
4 Dallas Petition Drives Voters Should Know About
More than 19 million people (a record) are registered to vote in Texas, which isn’t surprising given how many high-profile races are on the ballot. And early voting totals are so far indicative of busy voting centers: Yesterday, the line to vote at Oak Lawn Library around 2:30 p.m. snaked around the block, and there … Continued
First day of early vote shows record turnout in some Texas counties
Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins posted on X yesterday (Monday, Oct. 19) that early voter turnout in Dallas County had hit 63,168 by 5 p.m., surpassing the full day total on the first day of early voting in 2024 by more than 6,500. Then Jenkins asked for “guesses on the final number” for the day […]
Dallas County Early Voting Tops 76,000 On Day One
Dallas County voters opened early voting Monday with a turnout that surpassed the county’s first-day totals in the past two presidential elections, according to County Judge Clay Jenkins. In a social media post on X, Jenkins said that 76,079 voters turned out on October 19, exceeding the previous opening-day record of 60,573 in 2020, Fox […]
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