Texas has pretty clean elections under the existing rules. I much prefer having early voting instead of relaxed absentee voting. The system Texas has in place now started in 1987. The early votes are all tabulated the weekend prior to election day. Those results are released promptly at poll closing time (7 pm local time) in each county. We get our votes counted on election night, usually by 10 pm. There is no reason to cut down on early voting. Lots of people in the oil and gas industry favored enactment of early voting in 1987, because they don’t know where they will be on election day.
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Lots of jobs require mobility in employees. Thus in person early
voting is appropriate imo. I have voted early in most every
election for many years now. I”m retired now but its more
convenient to vote early when the lines aren't long. JMO