As of poll closing time Thursday, just under 100,000 El l Paso County residents had cast early ballots, breaking the previous record set in the 2004 presidential election.
Today is the last day to vote early in next Tuesday's election.
Figures posted on the El Paso County Elections Department website show more than 12,000 people voted Thursday, bringing the total to 99,634.
In 2004, 96,465 voted early in El Paso County.
County Elections Administrator Javier Chacon has said he expects the final early vote total to be between 105,000 and 110,000 when early voting ends today evening.
That will probably mean the total vote, after the polls close Tuesday, will exceed 200,000, easily a record for El Paso County.
Today and this evening particularly, he said, people should expect to stand in line to vote at the early voting stations around the county.
This year, there is an extra attraction: the colorful “I Voted” stickers election personnel are giving out that are quickly becoming collectors’ items.
They are not the run-of-the-mill oval stickers voters have been getting for years.
“We got them last year,” Chacon said. “There was a promotion going on to get ready for the presidential election year and we ordered 250,000 of them.
“Now we’re getting calls for them. When it came out that they’re going to be a collector’s item, now everyone wants them and people are taking more than one.”
To keep from running out, he said, election personnel are giving them away one at a time when they hand people’s voter registration cards or IDs back to them.
“You want your sticker?” Chacon said. “Go out and vote.”
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Voter Guide 11.2008 Online Resources
Races included in the Voter Guide 11.2008
State Representative District 75; Charlie Garza, Chente Quintanilla
State Representative District 78; Dee Margo, Joe Moody
8th Court of Appeals, Judge Place 3; Kenn Carr, Guadalupe “Lupe” Rivera
448th District Court; Christopher Antcliff, Regina Arditti
County Criminal District Court #1; Manuel Barraza, Don Minton
County Sheriff; George Stoltz, Richard Wiles
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Click here to visit the canidates’ websites.
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Attached as a pdf is the Voter Guide brought to you by El Paso Media Group and the El Paso Chamber of Commerce. Download your own personal copy of the Voter Guide and read it on your computer or print it out and read through it during your lunch break.
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Click here for Early Voting locations. Early voting ends 10.31.2008.
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For more information:
Elections Department
Phone: 915.546.2154
Fax: 915 546-2220
www.epcounty.com
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