By Alexandria Randolph and Glynis Crawford Smith
Highland Lakes Newspapers
A whopping 22 percent of the 29,556 registered voting population in Burnet County had cast an early vote as of Friday morning, Oct. 28.
“Voting numbers in Burnet County are exploding like everywhere else in the state,” said Burnet County Elections Administrator Doug Ferguson on Thursday afternoon. “Each day we have voted more than any day in past years' elections.”
Turn out at the polls on the first day of voting broke records from previous presidential election years.
“A total of 1,197 voters cast their ballot on Monday, roughly four percent of registered voters in the county.
“It was biggest early voting day that I know of for Burnet County,” he said. “We beat 2008 and 2012 – all those numbers.”
By Tuesday the number of Burnet County early voters had grown by 1,306 to 2,117. The third day's vote was 1,268 and Thursday was set to exceed 1,262.
