Onward to November.

Voters picked their party nominees Tuesday from a slew of contested state and county primary races, from top-ticket draws to down-ballot candidates. Locally, final ballots were still being counted as the Chronicle went to press in the wee hours Wednesday morning — a day early this week to coincide with the Austin Music Awards show Wednesday night. That meant a few of the late results were still not available, especially in Bexar County, where voting problems plagued both primaries all day and into the evening, with possible late effects on close races.

We’ll provide further analysis of the results in next week’s issue.

This article appears in March 15 • 2002.

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