{"id":1123201,"date":"2022-05-05T13:34:00","date_gmt":"2022-05-05T18:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1123201"},"modified":"2022-05-06T13:12:41","modified_gmt":"2022-05-06T18:12:41","slug":"early-absentee-ballots-way-up-from-last-may-in-smith-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1123201","title":{"rendered":"Early, absentee ballots way up from last May in Smith County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2022\/05\/voting-computer-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1122839\" \/>TYLER \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Early and absentee ballots in Smith County are up significantly from a year ago as voters and officials prepare for Saturday\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s elections. The county says 7,746 people cast their ballots early and 1,127 absentee ballots were received by the elections office. In last May&#8217;s municipal elections, early votes totaled 1,650 and there were 64 absentee ballots cast. It should be noted that ballot items were considerably different a year ago. This spring, bond elections are on the ballot for Tyler, Bullard, and Chapel Hill Independent School Districts. Also on the ballot are several races for cities and school districts, as well as constitutional amendments. <!--more--> <\/p>\n<p>Additionally, looking back further, officials point out that in 2020, elections normally held in May were moved to November and bundled with the presidential and other elections because of COVID-19. We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll have more on elections around the area as Saturday draws closer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TYLER \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Early and absentee ballots in Smith County are up significantly from a year ago as voters and officials prepare for Saturday\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s elections. The county says 7,746 people cast their ballots early and 1,127 absentee ballots were received by the elections office. In last May&#8217;s municipal elections, early votes totaled 1,650 and there were &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1123201\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Early, absentee ballots way up from last May in Smith County<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":1123207,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2022\/05\/voting-computer-150x150.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Early, absentee ballots way up from last May in Smith County","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1123201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-25 22:31:59","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2022\/05\/voting-computer-150x150.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Early, absentee ballots way up from last May in Smith County","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1123201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1123201"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1123201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1123210,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1123201\/revisions\/1123210"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1123207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1123201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1123201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1123201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}