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Early Voting Begins Monday
October 19 - 11:45 AM
Early Voting in Texas begins Monday, October 20. While Early Voting once was a marginal
alternative voting method, in recent years it has become a substantial portion of the
voting electorate, in certain political jurisdictions.
At first the point of Early Voting was to allow alternative days for voters to vote, to allow
participation by voters whose schedules make impossible voting on Election Day. At the time
this was little more an extension of Absentee Voting, which still exists today as a
separate function.
At that time there were a handful of voting locations, so unless you lived in the immediate
vicinity of those locations, it was not very convenient. Despite that inconvenience, it was
convenient enough for other reasons to increase in popularity, leading to an expansion in
polling locations. Since the effect of Hurricane Ike has been to displace a lot of voters from
their normal polling places, the ability to rechannel voters to locations outside their
residential voting precincts has become critical in "Election Day" planning.
To those oldtimers, like this writer, who are used to an Election Day mentality, there are
slight disadvantages. The campaign truly is not over until Election Day. In 2000, five days
before Election Day but after Early Voting had ended everywhere, George Bush's DWI conviction
has revealed to the public for the first time. In earlier times it might well have killed his
chances of victory, particularly in a close race as this one was. Instead it appears to have
had no effect at all. How might the outcome have been different if there had been no Early Voting?
Be that as it may, times have changed. Early Voting is enough of an institution that campaign
strategies are built around it. Tomorrow it begins in Texas and elsewhere.
In the coming days we will be posting Early Voting information in voting places around the country.
To begin, here is
Early Voting in Harris County (Houston), Texas.
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