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Early voting runs from Monday, Oct. 24, to Friday, Nov. 4. The last day to apply to vote by mail is Friday, Oct. 28. Election Day is Tuesday, Nov. 8.
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If you don’t already have a valid photo ID, long waits for appointments at DPS could make getting one in time for the election difficult.
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The winner of the special election will replace former U.S. Rep. Filemon Vela, D-Brownsville, who resigned last month to work for Akin Gump.
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Texans have already cast more ballots in the presidential election than they did during all of 2016, an unprecedented surge of early voting in a state that was once the country’s most reliably Republican, but may now be drifting toward battleground status.
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Early and mail voters in the state so far have reached more than 65% of the total turnout four years ago, a record pace. About 6 million Texans have voted early.
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A last-minute challenge by the Republican parties of Texas and Harris County argued the largely Democratic county's new drive-thru polling places were illegal.
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Texas has allowed curbside voting for decades, for anyone physically unable to enter a polling place. Voters ask for help when they get to a polling location, and an election officer will bring a ballot to the car.
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Many election department officials across Texas are enjoying large turnout numbers this week — and they know there's more to come thanks to the extended early voting period.
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Voters in downtown Dallas, Allen, Arlington and other polling locations across the metroplex turned out for the first day of early voting.
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An order from a federal appeals court Saturday set up another potential legal showdown over voting in Texas as mail-in ballots are already being collected and just days before early voting begins.
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The Texas Supreme Court ruled against several GOP officials who pushed to keep early voting to a two-week period during the pandemic.