Early voting begins in Texas today 10-18-2004 - BUSY polling place this morning!

[MeekOneGOP]

Here are the numbers of voters through Thursday 10-21:

Early Voting - October 21, 2004

November 2, 2004 Early Voting Cumulative Totals Thru Close of Business
October 21, 2004 Prepared by:  Elections Division

County	Reg Voters	# In Person On Oct. 21, 2004	Cumulative In- Person Voters	Cumulative % In- Person	Cumulative By Mail Voters	Cumulative In- Person And Mail Voters	Cumulative Percent Early Voting
Harris	1,937,072	21,054	84,331	4.35%	11,519	95,850	4.95%
Dallas	1,231,291	19,638	83,235	6.76%	17,169	100,404	8.15%
Tarrant	918,656	19,546	76,742	8.35%	9,782	86,524	9.42%
Bexar	908,466	17,789	68,771	7.57%	6,178	74,949	8.25%
Travis	584,949	14,559	63,216	10.81%	3,257	66,473	11.36%
El Paso	371,856	7,489	29,562	7.95%	2,682	32,244	8.67%
Collin	369,412	9,090	36,975	10.01%	1,885	38,860	10.52%
Denton	321,700	7,034	28,817	8.96%	1,639	30,456	9.47%
Hidalgo	269,811	3,898	17,212	6.38%	1,025	18,237	6.76%
Fort Bend	254,364	3,811	16,274	6.40%	4,003	20,277	7.97%
Montgomery	214,098	4,270	17,942	8.38%	1,910	19,852	9.27%
Nueces	201,707	3,601	15,812	7.84%	1,005	16,817	8.34%
Williamson	200,344	4,326	20,279	10.12%	950	21,229	10.60%
Galveston	185,911	2,973	13,782	7.41%	3,250	17,032	9.16%
Jefferson	165,174	3,456	14,780	8.95%	1,281	16,061	9.72%
Total	8,134,811	142,534	587,730	7.22%	67,535	655,265	8.06%

[DeFault User]

Straight Republican Ticket.

North Carolina (and I suspect a few other Southern states) don't have true one lever/button straight ticket voting. Votes for Pres./VP are separated from the rest of the ticket so that a voter must choose twice. If only the straight ticket button is pushed, no vote for President is cast. Evidently, this dates from the time that Southerners voted for the Republican for President and local Dems feared the repercussions.

Whatever, there is no substitute for reading the fine print voting instructions and finding out who the conservatives are for so-called nonpartisan races.

[MeekOneGOP]

Man, that's crazy. Glad we don't do that here. Of course, if we
did, I would MANUALLY vote for GOP only, so it wouldn't
STOP me, just slow me down a bit in the booth.

[kassie]

Thanks. Voted this morning. Quite a few people were there to vote early. I voted in Missouri City.

[MeekOneGOP]

You're welcomed! And way to go.

Go, Dubya, go !!

[deport]

North Carolina (and I suspect a few other Southern states) don't have true one lever/button straight ticket voting.

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I think there was a thread on this topic a couple days ago..... Seems some other states were enumerated...

In Texas one punch does do it all.... and is so stated on the ballot.

[deport]

NC and SC straight ticket voting

According to the above linked thread North and South Carolina are the only two states that have that quirk you mentioned...... Don't know how accurate that is.

[padfoot_lover]

Two more votes for Dubya and the straight Republican ticket here from Montgomery County.

Last presidential election, you could just walk in to the early voting place and vote in 5 minutes or less, no wait. Today, we waited in a long line and it took 45 MINUTES. Huge turnout going on here.

[DeFault User]

When a straight ticket is not a straight ticket......The more people know about this the better. I will occasionally vote for a Democrat for a local office, if I'm assured that it's a good choice or the Republican is a goofball, but, normally, straight Republican is a a better choice.

[MeekOneGOP]

Yay! Bump! :^D

[MeekOneGOP]

Looks like voting is quite BRISK so far, eh??? :^D

Early Voting - October 24, 2004

November 2, 2004 Early Voting Cumulative Totals Thru Close of Business
October 24, 2004 Prepared by:  Elections Division

County	Reg Voters	# In Person On Oct. 24, 2004	Cumulative In- Person Voters	Cumulative % In- Person	Cumulative By Mail Voters	Cumulative In- Person And Mail Voters	Cumulative Percent Early Voting
Harris	1,937,072	14,561	152,437	7.87%	18,850	171,287	8.84%
Dallas	1,231,291	12,102	145,452	11.81%	19,120	164,572	13.37%
Tarrant	918,656	9,944	130,131	14.17%	11,541	141,672	15.42%
Bexar	908,466	8,789	115,956	12.76%	8,922	124,878	13.75%
Travis	584,949	7,307	98,792	16.89%	3,724	102,516	17.53%
El Paso	371,856	2,497	45,690	12.29%	2,737	48,427	13.02%
Collin	369,412	5,524	67,894	18.38%	2,206	70,100	18.98%
Denton	321,700	4,113	51,403	15.98%	1,886	53,289	16.56%
Hidalgo	269,811	1,111	24,810	9.20%	1,725	26,535	9.83%
Fort Bend	254,364	3,431	33,205	13.05%	4,203	37,408	14.71%
Montgomery	214,098	2,530	30,621	14.30%	2,029	32,650	15.25%
Nueces	201,707	1,376	24,215	12.01%	1,256	25,471	12.63%
Williamson	200,344	2,184	34,275	17.11%	1,067	35,342	17.64%
Galveston	185,911	2,119	25,222	13.57%	3,623	28,845	15.52%
Jefferson	165,174	774	22,167	13.42%	1,586	23,753	14.38%
Total	8,134,811	78,362	1,002,270	12.32%	84,475	1,086,745	13.36%

[deport]

Four more days including today..... It seems to be lagging a bit behind 2000 or at least in my county. If so that may well mean the democrats aren't that enthused... Hope that is the conclusion.

[MeekOneGOP]

Did you note Collin county? Almost 19% of registered voters
have already voted. That's 95% BUSH votes too, I bet!

[girlscout]

I voted on Saturday (Harris Co - Freeman Library) and had to wait 1 1/2 hours in line. They said it's been like that every day.

[MeekOneGOP]

Lots of Bush voters! :^D

[potlatch]

I voted today at our Mall, only took 10 minutes. I seemed to have hit at a good time as they reported that it was taking 45 minutes for most people.

They are using a computer to find your name, then they print out a paper with that information on it and you sign it. Wish they had to do that everywhere.

[MeekOneGOP]

Sounds like the same system I used, too.

Just SIX days until Bush is re-elected! :^D