{"id":33036,"date":"2018-10-24T19:26:26","date_gmt":"2018-10-24T19:26:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=33036"},"modified":"2018-10-24T19:26:26","modified_gmt":"2018-10-24T19:26:26","slug":"living-near-the-center-of-the-early-vote-explosion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=33036","title":{"rendered":"Living near the center of the early-vote explosion"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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I reside in the sixth most populous county in Texas, which has 254 of them spread over 268,000 square miles.<\/p>\n

I am pleased to report that Collin County has taken its place at the head of the parade of counties where early voting totals for this year’s midterm election has smashed prior records.<\/p>\n

The Texas Tribune has published voter turnouts for the state’s 30 largest counties. The early vote response is astonishing.<\/p>\n

In 2014, the previous midterm election year, 18.336 Collin County residents voted early after the first couple of days. This year, the total of early votes so far is 74,273. What’s more, the 2016 early-vote totals — in a presidential election year — totaled 68,241 ballots. So this year’s midterm, non-presidential election year, so far is exceeding the turnout for a presidential year. Astounding!<\/p>\n

Early vote totals exploding<\/a><\/p>\n

The early returns on the number of early votes is encouraging \u2026 if it means a commensurate spike in the overall turnout. I hope that’s the case. I’ve long lamented the state’s historically miserable voter turnout performance. Texas ranks near the bottom of the nation’s 50 states in that regard. We ain’t No. 1 there, folks.<\/p>\n

Maybe when all the ballots are counted in less than two weeks, Texas can finish somewhere up the list of states. The early numbers ae encouraging.<\/p>\n

As I’ve noted longer than I can remember, representative democracy works better when more of us take part in this fundamental right of citizenship in a free and liberated nation.<\/p>\n\n

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I reside in the sixth most populous county in Texas, which has 254 of them spread over 268,000 square miles. I am pleased to report that Collin County has taken its place at the head of the parade of counties where early voting totals for this year’s midterm election has smashed prior records. The Texas … Continue reading Living near the center of the early-vote explosion<\/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":[14,18],"tags":[7490,1063,1496,7576,4728],"class_list":["post-33036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-political-news","category-state-news","tag-2018-election","tag-collin-county","tag-early-voting","tag-midterm-election","tag-texas-tribune"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33036","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=33036"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33036\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33039,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33036\/revisions\/33039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}