Early voter turnout in this year’s midterm election in Texas has reportedly surpassed the entire voter turnout total in the state’s 2014 midterm election.
According to The Texas Tribune, over 4,500,000 people in Texas casted in-person ballots in this year’s early voting period and more than 360,000 people have cast mail-in ballots in 30 counties alone.
Of those counties, which the Tribune noted is where the vast majority of registered voters in the state reside, nearly 40 percent of the 12.3 million residents in those counties that are registered vote have already done so.
The preliminary data gathered from those counties via the Texas secretary of state’s office show that in the 12 days of early voting in the state, those 30 counties already surpassed voter turnout from not only the previous midterm election in 2014 but also turnout for 2012 presidential election in the state.- READ MORE