My Angelina County (TX) early voting experience.

[Reciprocity]

Well, the feed store I use is downtown so my darling husband and I decided to give early voting a try since we were in the neighborhood.

The traffic jam in the parking lot, was the first indication that the turn out for this election, was uncharacteristically heavy for our neck of the woods. They were well organized, with at least six parking lot attendants (county deputy's and assorted volunteers) so the wait for a free slot was short. The flow of voters was steady and swift, with no hint of impropriety or intimidation. It was the most enjoyable voting experience we have ever had. The only thing that was a bit worrisome, was that neither of us remember seeing any minorities. It also was the first time I ever braved asking an election official a question. Yes, I can vote a straight democratic ticket, and for the libertarians when they were the only challengers to republicans. So are we demotarians or anti-republicans?


This was on the news tonight.

Voters turned out in record numbers for early voting . As of Thursday night, more than 14,000 registered voters had voted early in Angelina County. The total number of early votes in Angelina County is over 15,000. That may end up being about 50 percent of our voter turnout.

We're seeing a lot of first-time voters this time around, and it's not just young people. We're seeing people come in that are in their 30s and 40s that are voting for the first time."

In 2000, 13,274 people voted early in Angelina County. That number might have been skewed a little because the county's jail bond issue topped the ballot that year.
Shanklin (tax assessor) said the 1996 general election, when 9,450 people voted early, represented a more typical turnout for Angelina County.

Stats for my county.

Angelina County
Population 2000: 80,130

Presidential politics: Angelina County strongly supported George W. Bush in the November 2000 election. Countywide, 16,648 people voted for Bush and 9,957 voted for Gore. Nader received 245 votes.

Voters: Measured by the count of citizens age 18 and older at the time of the 2000 census, Angelina County has the following numbers of potential voters:
Total: 54,910
Male: 26,283 (47.9%)
Female: 28,627 (52.1%)
http://www.epodunk.com/cgi-bin/politicalInfo.php?locIndex=22578

[PDittie]

1. Excellent report

I think * will probably still carry your county but the Democrats down the ballot, like David Van Os, Max Sandlin, and your state representative will benefit from those Yellow Dog ticket-splitters.

Do you know, by any chance, how many men and women from Angelina county have served/are serving/have been killed or wounded in Iraq and Afghanistan?

[Reciprocity]

2. No.

I don’t know and can’t find the info on Google. I do know we had one suicide.

[PDittie]

3. Sic a local newspaper reporter on it

Tyler Morning Telegraph? Marshall News-Messenger? Longview Journal?

Lufkin?

There's contact data in Campaign Underground. You can fax them a question such as the above. They won't be able to answer it in time for the election; nevertheless, I bet the casualty numbers would be striking...

[lastliberalintexas]

4. Maybe the Lufkin paper's

endorsement of Kerry will persuade a few more voters to go against the Shrub tidal wave here in Texas.

I can't decide whether the record number of early voters across the state is good for them or us. I mean, typically people do not stand in long lines for several minutes/hours in the Texas heat just to vote for the guy already there. But then, this IS Texas, so I hate to get too optimistic for Kerry. I know he won't take Texas, but if Shrub wins by less than 10 points, we did very well!


How is it looking for Sandlin and McReynolds? And don't you just want to lob a stink bomb into Nacog county? God, what little fascists they have at SFA! Shouldn't they have enlisted by now?