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RandySF

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Sun Oct 18, 2020, 05:44 AM Oct 2020

Fourth day of early voting in North Texas counties surpasses 2016 numbers

Voter turnout in all four major counties continues to break records compared to early voting in the 2016 election. Friday marked the fourth day of early voting.

Election officials in Dallas, Tarrant, Collin and Denton counties have reported that in-person voting totals have exceeded those in the last presidential election. Early voting began on Tuesday.

n Collin County, there were 38,573 votes on Friday compared to 24,840 in 2016.
There have been 153,105 total votes cast in this election for Collin County. By the fourth day of early voting in 2016, there were 114,695 total votes.

In Denton County, there were 32,683 votes on Friday and in 2016 there were 19,443.
There have been 143,846 total votes cast in the current election for Denton County. By the fourth day of early voting in 2016, there had been 75,452 total votes in Collin County.
In Tarrant County, there were 50,219 votes on Friday.

The totals in Tarrant County have already outpaced the first four days of early voting from 2016 by at least 10,000 votes.



https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/politics/elections/fourth-day-early-voting-dallas-surpasses-2016-numbers-tarrant-collin-denton/287-8602e622-1f65-4193-ad6e-b527c5022e83

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