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Early Voting Still at a Trickle 

 Mon Oct 29, 12:46pm , 2007


The first week of early voting for the Nov. 6 election is complete, and Travis County voters are clearly less than enthused by a ballot that, for most citizens, is only a vote on state constitutional amendments. Frankly, I don't blame them — normally this is where I'd go into tsk-tsk mode and lecture you for not doing your civic duty, but good lord our system of legislating through constitutional amendment is idiotic. Seriously, is this really the best way to govern ourselves?

So, don't feel too bad if you're not one of the 7,112 hardy souls who either went to the voting booth or mailed in a ballot as of Sunday evening (That's a mere 1.33% of the county's registered voters).

As per usual, the Randalls on Research Blvd. had the highest turnout thus far (821 voters), while the lightest has been at the Parque Zaragoza Rec Center (33). The county's various mobile voting sites pulled in 794.

For more info, go to the Travis County Elections Web site.

 

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