{"id":1301614,"date":"2024-02-29T07:40:46","date_gmt":"2024-02-29T13:40:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1301614"},"modified":"2024-03-04T14:07:47","modified_gmt":"2024-03-04T20:07:47","slug":"numbers-low-approaching-end-of-early-voting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1301614","title":{"rendered":"Early voting numbers low"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1301615\" src=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2024\/02\/VOTE1-1-210x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"210\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2024\/02\/VOTE1-1-210x200.jpg 210w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2024\/02\/VOTE1-1-368x350.jpg 368w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2024\/02\/VOTE1-1.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 210px) 100vw, 210px\" \/>EAST TEXAS &#8212; Early voting for the March primary ends Friday. Our news partner KETK took a look at voter turnout in East Texas counties ahead of election day. Early voting started last week and Gregg County Elections Administrator shared that the turnout is lower than they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d like to see. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153So far during early voting we had 4,372 check-ins, and in 2022 for the governor primary we had 6,762 for the entire early voting period,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Jennifer Briggs, Gregg County elections administrator, said. Briggs explained how they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re not the only Texas county experiencing lower turnout. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I have been conversing with other elections administrators for the state of Texas and they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re kind of saying the same thing. So the turnout is a little bit slower than it was in 2022 for the governor primary,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Briggs.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The Smith County elections administrator shared that their numbers are on track. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153It is a slower turnout than we would like to see but it is on par with the 2022 and 2020 primaries, so the numbers are roughly equal,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Michelle Allcon, Smith County elections administrator, said. They are hoping to see more early voters show up by Friday. If not, election officials expect them later this year.<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u02dcFree speech is so important\u00e2\u20ac\u2122: State Sen. Bryan Hughes hopes Supreme Court upholds Texas social media law<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Waiting to see what happens and they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re all going to come out and show up in November, we are expecting a big turnout in November,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Briggs.<\/p>\n<p>Early voters still have time to cast their ballots. The last day to cast your ballot early is this Friday, March 1st.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EAST TEXAS &#8212; Early voting for the March primary ends Friday. Our news partner KETK took a look at voter turnout in East Texas counties ahead of election day. Early voting started last week and Gregg County Elections Administrator shared that the turnout is lower than they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d like to see. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153So far during early voting &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1301614\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Early voting numbers low<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":1301616,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2024\/02\/VOTE1-1-210x200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Numbers low approaching end of early voting","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1301614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-21 12:49:36","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\/2024\/02\/VOTE1-1-210x200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Numbers low approaching end of early voting","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1301614","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\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1301614"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1301614\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1301882,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1301614\/revisions\/1301882"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1301616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1301614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1301614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1301614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}