Rising Turnout, Rising Stakes: Texas Early Voting Continues To Smashes Records
Texas voters are continuing to shatter records, but will it be enough to flip the state?
https://www.lonestarleft.com/p/rising-turnout-rising-stakes-texas
All day, I waited for a full update from the Secretary of State (SoS) regarding the Day 1 early voter turnout. Three major counties and ten small rural counties are still not showing their results on the SoS website for Day 1 of early voting. Are the reporting counties slow? Is it the SoS’s fault? That’s unclear at the moment, but we’re already starting to see some numbers from Day 2 coming out, so let’s talk about where we’re at.
Bell, Hays, and Smith are the three major counties that still don’t appear on the SoS website.
Hays County is blue.
Bell County is on the verge of blue.
And Smith County is trending blue, but it will probably be a few more cycles until we can talk about it flipping.
Discounting those three counties plus the smaller, rural ten, here is what the SoS is reporting:
Day 1, in-person votes: 886,526
Day 1, in-person + mail-in votes: 1,049,166
In 2024, we beat the 2020 record for in-person voting by over 130,000 votes, and that’s still without several counties reporting.