24-hour voting underway at eight sites in Harris County
Tish Conley tried to carve out time to vote ever since the start of early voting. The 48-year-old who works in information technology for IBM, however, couldn’t make it work with a schedule that has to consider colleagues in India in different time zones.
“I just never could find a time during the day,” Conley said.
That changed this week when she turned on the news and heard about polling sites that would be open 24 hours on Thursday throughout Harris County.
“Oh, hell yeah,” she thought. “I’m going to do that.”
Conley was among a steady flow of voters who arrived in handfuls Thursday evening to Kashmere Multiservice Center, one of the eight early voting sites in the county scheduled to remain open through the night and continue to welcome voters through the small hours of Friday as the only 24-hour voting locations in the state.
The eight locations stayed open while the county surpased voter turnout for the 2016 election. Hours at 112 voting sites in the county were also extended this week by three hours, opening at 7 a.m. and closing at 10 p.m. since Tuesday.
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