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Voter registration in Texas ended on October 5, and the Secretary of State reported a registration total of 16,955,519 voters, an increase of 1,854,432 since the 2016 elections, and 1.2 million of which had occurred after the 2018 midterm elections. Early voting began on October 13.
About 125,000 turned out to vote in Harris County, home of Houston — half again as many as turned out in the general election of 2016, the last year for which there are statistics from the Texas ...
With Nov. 3 still a few days off, Texans have now cast more votes this election cycle than any other year on record. The 9 million early votes cast in the Lone Star State is more than its total ...
Michelle Ye Hee Lee; Amy Gardner; Brittney Martin (October 14, 2020), "Early voting begins in Texas with high turnout, despite new legal developments on voting access", The Washington Post; Dan Balz (October 18, 2020), "Texas is the most intriguing political state in the country this fall", The Washington Post
Texas is historically one of the most restrictive states to vote in in the US. But in a 'cost of voting' index report, the Lone Star state actually placed dead last in ease of voting.
Presidential election turnout by state 1976–2020. Voter turnout in US elections is the total number of votes cast by the voting age population (VAP), or more recently, the voting eligible population (VEP), divided by the entire voting eligible population.
With a record number of ballots cast in early voting in Texas, candidates, strategists and analysts are looking for clues as to how the state will go.
"Texas governor cuts back on voting locations weeks before election", BBC News, UK, October 1, 2020, Texas' governor has ordered that voters can drop off their mail-in ballots at only one location per county; Lisa Rein; Kayla Ruble (October 5, 2020), "In Detroit, chronic USPS delays undermine voters' confidence in voting by mail ...