Click on the link to the Hays County Elections Office for the complete schedule of early voting locations and times. Early voting ends on Oct. 29. Election Day is Tuesday, Nov. 2
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By Bob Ochoa
Editor
Hays County Elections Administrator Joyce Cowan said this morning that a little over a thousand people voted early in Dripping Springs on Tuesday, double the number on the first day of early voting in 2006.
"It's definitely up from '06 (gubernatorial/midterm), definitely up for the first day I'll say, and the first week," said Cowan. "They were voting at a little over a hundred an hour (at the Dripping Springs ISD Administration Building). Nobody really waited any more than an hour. It went very smoothly."
Monday's early voting totals were 344 at Woodcreek City Hall and 697 at Kyle City Hall.
Two additional early voting locations opened today at the Wimberley Community Center and the Belterra subdivision, east of downtown Dripping Springs off Hwy 290. Cowan said she was expecting at least a thousand voters at each location by day's end.
Looks like voters are excited and turning out in good numbers. Dripping Springs is home to incumbent State Rep. Patrick Rose and his challenger, businessman and Belterra resident Jason Isaac. No surprise on the turnout there with both candidates pushing their supporters to the polls. Wonder who Belterra will be turning out for?
Check the two candidates' websites for a clarification from Isaac on his position on concealed handguns on university campuses (Isaac was heard explaining to voters he preferred universities decide the question); and from Rose, an old update "Water and Politcs" on the back story of the uncomplimentary catchphrase "you've been Rosed" first penned by former State Comptroller John Sharp in a Statesman letter to the editor ("Sharp retort").
We'll have updates on early voting as they arrive.
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