Early voting topples Tarrant County turnout records (Texas)

Star-Telegram ^ | February 19, 2016 | Anna M. Tinsley

[justlittleoleme]

It is very good to see turnouts like they have been. More for Republicans than Democrats that bodes well for the general.

[cloudmountain]

Texas USED to be a bastion of the Democrats...LBJ and such. Not any more. Hard to believe that they are now GOPers.

[Don Corleone]

That nearly 70 percent surplus of Republican voters does not bode well for the Marxist party.

[DallasGal]

Which reminds me I need to go vote. Doing my part to keep the numbers climbing.

[TexasCajun]

I printed out my sample ballot today & will early vote Monday or Tuesday.

[who_would_fardels_bear]

Early voting is soooooo wrong.

People are voting now not knowing whether Bush, Rubio, or Kasich is going to win the 'GOPe Primary'.

People could end up voting for candidates who may no longer be running by the time the formal primary takes places. Candidates like Carson, perhaps.

This is one of the reasons why Mitt won Michigan when Santorum had all the momentum: because idiots, and I do mean idiots, voted in Michigan early when Mitt looked like a sure thing.

How difficult is it really to show up and vote on election day? I thought Republicans fight tooth and nail against voting on weekends because they think that Republicans are more likely to go out of their way to vote on a work day. If that's the case, then why allow early voting? If we allow early voting, then why not just move voting to weekends so that most people are forced to wait until the last minute, so they have all the information they need to make an intelligent, rather than an idiotic, vote?

[newfreep]

Austin is the SW campus of UC-Berkeley

[VanDeKoik]

I find it just weird for the same reason.

[hadaclueonce]

I voted early today.

They yelled at me for trying to vote twice.

[jpsb]

Tarenty county = Democrats

[ozaukeemom]

We vote early. My husband is not able to wait in a line to vote. And, here, there are lines most of the day. So, we go the week or so before and vote. Sorry if that bothers you.

[nclaurel]

I see no point in early voting in a primary, but I do try to vote early in a general election. At my age I could die before election day and I want to make sure I vote before I go.

[grey_whiskers]

Berkeley is 37^o 52' N / 122^o 16' W and Austin is 30^o 16' N / 97^o 44' W.

So I think you mean SE campus...

[grey_whiskers]

I see no point in early voting in a primary, but I do try to vote early in a general election. At my age I could die before election day and want to make sure I vote before I go.

If you're a Democrat, you can vote both before and after! (in perpetuity...)

[RockyTx]

anybody else in Texas HD92?
Vote Stickland

[newfreep]

SW...as in Texas is in the South West part of America

[grey_whiskers]

Yeah, yeah. But Berkeley is in CA, so calling Austin "West" when talking about the UC campus is...it doesn't make you look very savvy, OK?

Just saying' for a FReeper friend. Take it in a lighthearted spirit.

[who_would_fardels_bear]

I have no problem with people being required to provide a note from a doctor specifying why they can't vote on election day. Or a note from an officer in their company stating they will be out of the area on official business.

Other than that and people in the armed forces, there should be no need for early voting.

Governments love it because it eases the stress on election day.

Incumbents love it because I'm guessing that most people that vote early vote for incumbents.

And vote fraudsters probably love it. In California early voting is done at a government office. Are there representatives of the parties sitting at these offices making sure that voting is done correctly, like they do on election day? I don't think so.

[spintreebob]

In GA voting started a couple weeks ago. I voted this week. The election officials seemed to think voting was slower than 2 years ago in the Perdue-Kingston-Nunn era. But they didnt have exact numbers.

[DoughtyOne]