Today is runoff primary election day in Texas. If you live in Harris County and don't know your polling location, the HarrisVotes! website will let you look it up. All you need to know is your name.
The Houston Chronicle says overall voting may be as low as 2% of eligible voters, but perhaps higher for the District 10 race between Mike McCaul and Ben Streusand.
In Harris County, the state's largest, 3,428 Republicans and 1,696 Democrats cast ballots in person during early voting for the runoff. That compares with 17,150 Republicans and 18,232 Democrats voting early before the March 9 primary, county officials said.Posted by Alan at April 13, 2004 07:05 AMIn the county as a whole, less than 2 percent of registered voters were expected to cast ballots in the election, said David Beirne, spokesman for Harris County Clerk Beverly Kaufman. There was only one local Democratic runoff race, for constable.
But in Congressional District 10 -- where a heated Republican primary is being decided -- the early voting turnout has been comparable to that seen before the March 9 primary, he said.
Five GOP congressional primaries will be decided today. The race for District 10, stretching from Houston to Austin, has become one of the most expensive U.S. House races this year with nearly $5 million spent.