Officials: Early voting totals 'low'

by Alexandria Randolph

With the second week of early voting just begun, county elections officials are reporting low percentages of voters turning out at the polls to cast their ballots.

Burnet County Elections Administrator Barbara Agnew cited voting totals lower than those that were reported the first week of the last general election during the early voting period.

“Through the first week of early voting, 2,929 people voted early, in person. Compare this with 3,276 that voted through the first week of early voting in November 2010. We have received 956 mail ballots with 351 ballots still out,” she said.

The county received 402 total mail ballots in 2010, Agnew added.

In Llano County, there have been 2,053 early votes cast in local polls there, as of noon on Monday, Oct. 27 – which amounts to 14.2 percent of the county's 14,325 registered voters, said Cindy Ware, Llano County elections administrator Cindy Ware. 

The number is low to previous years, Ware confirmed.

For more on the story, see Tuesday's Highlander.