Hays County Polling Places, Travis County Clerk’s Office Experience Technical Issues; Hays County Early Voting Totals Day 1
This morning, the polls opened throughout Hays County, and everything is running smoothly. Buda City Hall had the highest turnout of voters in the county with 1,055 voters.
By, Terra Rivers, Managing Editor
Early voting kicked off with a few technical issues at the San Marcos Government Center and the Dripping Springs voting location.
According to Jennifer Anderson, Hays County Elections Administrator, two voting machines had a connection wire issue at the government center.
Anderson said voters continued to run using six voting machines until the line of voters had gone down; the machines were later rebooted and ran smoothly for the remainder of the day.
A machine in Dripping Springs also experienced connection wire issues yesterday. After a tech reconnected and rebooted the system, there were no further problems.
This morning, the polls opened throughout Hays County, and everything is running smoothly. Buda City Hall had the highest turnout of voters in the county with 1,055 voters.
Below is a break down of the early voting totals for the first day of early voting.
| LOCATION | EV TOTAL |
|---|---|
| Buda City Hall | 1,055 |
| Eikon Church | 273 |
| Govt Center | 867 |
| Hays Pct 2 | 855 |
| Hays Pct 4 |
830 |
| Live Oak/Health Dept | 355 |
| Kyle City Hall |
574 |
| Wimberley Comm Ctr | 882 |
| TX State LBJ | 814 |
| TOTAL | 6,505 |
| Mail-In Ballots Received | 3,156 |
| TOTALS |
9,661 |
Early voting continues until November 2. Election day is Tuesday, November 6.
In other news, Travis County Clerk’s office is experiencing technical issues on the second day of early voting. Voters wanting to look up polling places may have difficulty as the Travis County Clerk office’s website is currently down.
Officials from the clerk’s office cited a security update to the website caused an issue and brought the website down. While the office works on fixing the problem, Travis County voters can use votetravis.com to look up voting locations.
