Early voting ends with more than one million Harris County voters having cast their ballots

HOUSTON – Friday is the last day of early voting. That means if you haven't already voted early, if you don't do so by 7 p.m., you'll have to wait until Election Day on November 5th.

In Harris County, more than 1 million people voted early.

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The county clerk says that number is about the same as the 2016 and 2020 presidential elections. While the 2020 numbers may be strange due to the pandemic, on this final day of early voting, some lines are long while others are looking pretty good .

“We're actually standing here at one of our early voting centers, Baker Ripley Aldine. So if you are in this area or nearby, you can vote early here. There is enough parking space. Go in. Go vote.” “Come out. Take a selfie and show us the sticker you earned,” smiles Harris County Teneshia Hudspeth.

“This is the first time I’m voting. It's kind of cool to be there and have all the people know that they're doing the same thing as you and that their voices are being heard. It was fun. My mother and I took a photo,” said the 18-year-old – said old Sean Barreto, but young Sean is perhaps a little more enthusiastic about voting than his colleagues.

Here in Texas, an estimated 12% of all voters are between the ages of 18 and 29, compared to 14% in 2020.

Four years ago and today, 52% of early voters are women.

If you wait until Election Day, there will be 700 polling places in Harris County.

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“We have a statewide polling place program here in Harris County. We’ve been doing this since 2019. So with early voting and Election Day, you can vote absolutely anywhere,” Hudspeth said.

The voting season went largely without problems. Although a lawsuit was filed this week claiming that thousands in Harris County should have been disqualified as active voters.

“Who are either dead and should not be on the voter list, who are ineligible due to their citizenship status and some other minor categories. But the majority of the 569,000 fall into a category where the voter registrar made the national change.” If you compare the Postal Service's address list with the voter list, that person would have been on the suspense list (What's problematic about that if those names still on the voter list?). Attorney Jared Woodfill.

Harris County District Attorney Christian Menefee says, “The people who filed this lawsuit are partisans playing political games. Two of them are candidates on the ballot. The third is Steve Hotze, who has made multiple attempts to drown out the voice of voters in Harris County.” In 2020, he filed a lawsuit to throw out more than 127,000 votes. Now he is trying to remove names from the voter list just days before the election. It is clear that the goal is only to sow doubt about our elections and disenfranchise voters. “I am committed to the fight against this extremism and want to continue to encourage eligible voters to make their voices heard.”

Here too, early voting ends on Friday evening at 7 p.m