Avoid lines like this by voting early Credit: photo by Lee Nichols

Early voting has predictably continued to slow a bit, but turnout is still fantastic. After five days, 131,475 Travis County residents have either participated in early voting or cast a mail-in ballot. That’s 22% of the 609,224 registered voters here. Using past history as a guide, numbers will dip this weekend while people are doing other things (go Longhorns! Beat Oklahoma State!), and then spike back up next week.

Hint: Don’t just vote early, go vote RIGHT NOW. The last day of early voting is Halloween, and if you have kids, you know you’ll have distractions that day.

This article appears in October 24 • 2008.

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