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Let’s try this number on for size …<\/p>\n

13,627.<\/p>\n

That’s the number of Amarillo voters who cast ballots in advance of Tuesday’s election. We’re going to decide whether we want to build a $32 million multipurpose event venue that includes a ballpark in downtown Amarillo; we’re also going to vote on seven proposed amendments to the Texas Constitution.<\/p>\n

The early-vote number isn’t a record-breaker. It’s impressive nevertheless.<\/p>\n

By my estimation, that number represents roughly 10 to 11 percent of all registered voters in the city. It’s not great in and of itself.<\/p>\n

However, compared to the hideous turnout of many recent previous municipal elections, I believe that early-vote number represents a positive trend.<\/p>\n

I’ll be frank. The constitutional amendments aren’t drawing voters out. It takes a citywide issue such as the MPEV to bring ’em to the polls.<\/p>\n

I haven’t voted early. I’m waiting until Tuesday. I’ll probably go to my Randall County polling place first thing. I’ll be there by 7 a.m.<\/p>\n

You know how I’ll vote on this deal. Oh, just in case you don’t know … I’m voting “for” the MPEV as a\u00a0statement that the city is ready to keep marching forward.<\/p>\n

I’m heartened that the early turnout has been so relatively brisk.<\/p>\n

What does it mean for the final result? We’re going to find out early Tuesday evening when those early ballot results are released.<\/p>\n

Here’s hoping for the best.<\/p>\n

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Let’s try this number on for size … 13,627. That’s the number of Amarillo voters who cast ballots in advance of Tuesday’s election. We’re going to decide whether we want to build a $32 million multipurpose event venue that includes a ballpark in downtown Amarillo; we’re also going to vote on seven proposed amendments to … Continue reading Early vote totals: impressive<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,14],"tags":[304,1436,1496,3153,4596],"class_list":["post-11472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","category-political-news","tag-amarillo-election","tag-downtown-amarillo","tag-early-voting","tag-mpev","tag-texas-constitution"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11472"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11472\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11473,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11472\/revisions\/11473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}