Morrison (l) wins over Galindo Credit: photos by John Anderson

With just over half the Election Day vote total counted and all of early voting tallied, Laura Morrison has almost twice as many votes as Cid Galindo in the Austin City Council Place 4 run-off election. It’s pretty much mathematically impossible for Galindo to come back now.

109 of 207 precincts reporting

Early vote
Morrison 6,064 60%
Galindo 4,010 40%

Election Day
Morrison 4,482 71%
Galindo 1,863 29%

Total vote
Morrison 10,546 64%
Galindo 5,873 36%

This article appears in June 13 • 2008.

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