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SMITH COUNTY \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Smith County party chairs said they hope Tuesday\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s early morning showers don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t deter anyone from making their voice heard. Just hours away from Election Day, our news partner KETK reports that both the Smith County Democratic and Republican parties believe local, state and national races are going in a positive direction.<\/p>\n
A new problem that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s risen up and could affect voting in East Texas is the weather. Even though rain is expected to linger into the first hours of Election Day, Democratic Party chair, Hector Garza said its still important to get in line.<\/p>\n
\u00e2\u20ac\u0153It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s important enough to weather the storm. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s important enough to take an umbrella if it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s raining. This is this is your right, this is something that you do,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Hector Garza, the Smith County Democratic Party Chair.<\/p>\n
Stein said while there are no reports of voter issues in Smith County, he is worried about keeping the election secure and fair nationwide.
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\u00e2\u20ac\u0153I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t want to see mail in ballots coming in at the last minute. I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t want to see people restricted from watching the votes being counted, anything that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s done in that vein is going to cause speculation, and rightly so,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Stein.<\/p>\n
Voter fraud is a problem Garza sees no evidence of this Election cycle.<\/p>\n
\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Nothing that we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve heard so far that really worries us at all. The one thing that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s missing from this last election to this election is the word voter fraud. We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re not hearing it,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Garza.<\/p>\n
Both parties said their candidates have done all they can at this point and adding that its time for voters to do the rest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
SMITH COUNTY \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Smith County party chairs said they hope Tuesday\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s early morning showers don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t deter anyone from making their voice heard. Just hours away from Election Day, our news partner KETK reports that both the Smith County Democratic and Republican parties believe local, state and national races are going in a positive direction. A … Continue reading Smith County party officials set expectations for Election Day<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1367082,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2024\/11\/2024-11-04_231656-201x200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1367080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-11 09:04:30","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\/11\/2024-11-04_231656-201x200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1367080","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1367080"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1367080\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1367191,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1367080\/revisions\/1367191"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1367082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1367080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1367080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1367080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}