Texas Early Voting Passes 4.39 Million Ballots Through Sunday, Secretary of State Files Show
The Texas Secretary of State's daily county files add up to 4,394,304 ballots cast through Sunday — 23.1 percent of the state's registered voters — with four days of early voting still to run.
Texas voters have already cast more than 4.39 million ballots in the Nov. 3 midterm election, according to the Texas Secretary of State's daily early-voting files, summed in the early-vote tracker the Texas Desk read Tuesday morning. Through Sunday, Oct. 25, the files show 4,394,304 ballots: 4,192,368 cast in person and 201,936 by mail — about 23.1 percent of the 19,041,684 registered voters listed in the same files.
Sunday alone added 184,004 in-person votes from 155 of the state's 254 counties; the other 99 counties showed no Sunday in-person votes, because some do not offer Sunday voting and others had not yet reported. The largest counties lead the count in the latest files: Harris County at 579,313 ballots, Dallas County at 371,806, Tarrant County at 337,084, Travis County at 262,721 and Bexar County at 256,946 in the state files. The figures are unofficial and county-reported, and counties keep revising them as the week goes on.
Texas does not register voters by party, so no file shows how anyone voted. NBC News' TargetSmart model of the Texas early vote — an estimate, not a count — puts it at 46 percent Republican, 44 percent Democratic and 10 percent other. In-person early voting ends Friday, Oct. 30, statewide; Election Day is Tuesday, Nov. 3.
