[Paleo Conservative]

I find it hard to believe 25% of all votes have voted.

I don't! Texas like other states with early voting has had phenomenal turnout this year. We had 30% of the registered voters turn out! That means we probably had more than 50% of our turnout already, unless of course we get over 60% total turnout for this election.

[jbloedow]

I just found this on the Harris site from exactly 4 years ago:

One of the most interesting things in this survey is that 8 percent of all likely voters have already voted by mail. These early voters divided 48% for Bush and 49% for Gore, 2% for Nader, and 1% for Buchanan.

Looks like their numbers of early voting match up nicely with the final numbers.

[MeekOneGOP]

..... Texas like other states with early voting has had phenomenal turnout this year. We had 30% of the registered voters turn out! .....

Yep! Some local areas had as high as > 41% turnout!

I already cast my vote for Dubya !!

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

Here is an interesting site that tracks Early Voting in Texas.

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Early Voting - October 29, 2004

November 2, 2004
Early Voting
Cumulative Totals
Thru Close of Business
October 29, 2004

County	Reg Voters	# In Person On Oct. 29	Cum. In- Person Voters	Cum. % In- Person	Cum. By Mail Voters	Cum. In- Person And Mail Voters	Cum. Percent Early Voting
Harris	1,937,072	67,155	412,129	21.28%	24,767	436,896	22.55%
Dallas	1,231,291	47,303	322,738	26.21%	23,991	346,729	28.16%
Tarrant	918,656	43,622	290,746	31.65%	14,920	305,666	33.27%
Bexar	908,466	35,162	256,531	28.24%	18,255	274,786	30.25%
Travis	584,949	30,171	207,839	35.53%	9,589	217,428	37.17%
El Paso	371,856	12,165	92,115	24.77%	4,305	96,420	25.93%
Collin	369,412	20,815	150,001	40.61%	3,565	153,566	41.57%
Denton	321,700	16,297	113,792	35.37%	2,840	116,632	36.25%
Hidalgo	269,811	11,834	58,952	21.85%	2,838	61,790	22.90%
Fort Bend	254,364	13,882	78,519	30.87%	5,446	83,965	33.01%
Montgomery	214,098	9,079	67,080	31.33%	2,943	70,023	32.71%
Nueces	201,707	7,411	50,699	25.13%	2,332	53,031	26.29%
Williamson	200,344	11,801	75,494	37.68%	1,648	77,142	38.50%
Galveston	185,911	10,748	59,833	32.18%	4,881	64,714	34.81%
Jefferson	165,174	9,137	51,751	31.33%	2,413	54,164	32.79%
Total	8,134,811	346,582	2,288,219	28.13%	124,733	2,412,952	29.66%