Rather than tapering off after the first two days, excitement about the 2024 election has kept turnout growing each day at the polls.
In the more than two decades Elections Administrator Jacque Callanen has overseen elections in Bexar County, early voting turnout almost always tapers off after the first two days.first day of early voting in Bexar County
“Three and a half days into this election, it’s spectacular,” Callanen told reporters in a press conference on Thursday. In a rapidly growing county, Callanen said this year marked a new busiest early voting location for the first time in recent memory., located on the county’s outskirts by the Alamo Ranch expansion, overtook Brookhollow Library on the Northside near McAllister Park, which held the title for years but came in second place.
“In three and a half days, we’ve had as many people vote as we have in some of our city and school elections and in our amendment elections,” she noted.“We want you to keep getting that message out to pack your patience, because some people are really shocked at the lines,” Callanen said. “Some people are shocked when they pull up and there’s not their normal parking that they’ve been to for their normal sites.
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