Unprecedented early voting turnout in Tarrant County

From County Elections Administrator Steve Raborn:

At 1:30 PM today, approximately 103,000 Tarrant County voters have voted in person during the early voting period.  We have almost 6 hours of voting remaining, and we are currently receiving about 2,100 voters per hour countywide.  If that trend continues through the day (and it most likely picks up in the evening hours) we are on track to have a total of 22,500 voters today, which would give us a grand total of 114,500 voters over the entire period.

We have never seen this kind of early voting turnout in a Primary Election.

Early Voting for this election has been more like our non-Presidential general elections when we have the Governor’s race on the ballot.  In the 2006 General Election, Tarrant County had approximately 120,000 in-person early voters.

 Approximately 70% of the early voters have been voting in the Democratic Party Primary.

-Aman Batheja