Hays County Turns Out A Higher Percentage In Early Voting Than Texas
David LeDoux
A higher percentage of Hays County residents have voted during early voting than in the state by 6.49%. Early voting in Texas ended on Friday, with Hays County casting 97,143 votes.
Voters have headed to the polls in record numbers across Hays County and the U.S. for what seems like a never-ending battle for power and control.
The Hays County in-person ballot total was 85,097 (55.68%), and mail-in ballots totaled 12,046 (7.88%) registered voters. A total of 63.56% for Hays County.
In Texas, a total of 9,676,422 cast their ballot during early voting (mail-in: 973,059 and in-person: 8,703,363). With a total of 57.07% registered voters casting ballots.
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According to the Hays County elections office, in the 2016 general election, a total of 73,589 Hays County voters cast their ballots for early voting and election day.
Currently, Texas has a total of 16,955,519 registered voters. The total amount of Texans that voted in 2016 were 8,562,915, with Trump winning the popular by 807,179 total votes.
And both parties are preaching; this is “the most important election in our lifetime.”
The Democrats and Republicans are throwing everything, including the kitchen sink, at each other to win local, county, state, and national seats for more control and power.
Every year it seems like election seasons start earlier and last longer, and to be blatantly honest with our readers…this journalist is looking forward to this election year to be over.
Corridor News brings voters the early voting turnout totals for this year’s three weeks of Early Voting leading up to Election Day.
This year early voting runs through Friday, October 30, with election day on Tuesday, November 3, in Hays County.
Because Texas State University’s LBJ Student Center, an on-campus voting location in the past, cannot be used this year due to the COVID-19 pandemic, university officials offered its Performing Arts Center (PAC) as an alternate location for on-campus voting this year.
Hays County has five super voting centers; Super Voting Centers have 24 machines, two check-in lines, and double the staff to help move larger volumes of voters.
For more information on early voting locations and Super Voting Centers, check out the full list HERE.
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• NOTABLE STATS & FACTS •
~HOW MANY HAYS COUNTY VOTERS
CAST BALLOTS IN THE GENERAL
ELECTION IN 2016: 73,589
~TOTAL CURRENT REGISTERED VOTERS
IN HAYS COUNTY: 152,840
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 13 – FRIDAY, OCTOBER 30, 2020
| HOW PEOPLE ARE VOTING | TOTAL VOTED | TOTAL % OF REGISTERED VOTERS |
| EARLY IN PERSON | 85,097 | 55.68% |
| MAIL-IN VOTE | 12,046 | 7.88% |
| TOTAL VOTED | 97,143 | 63.56% |
Where we get our numbers: Texas Secretary of State
IN-PERSON VOTING TOTALS BY LOCATION
| IN-PERSON EARLY VOTING TOTALS BY LOCATION |
TOTAL VOTED 10/13 – 10/29 |
TOTAL VOTED WED 10/30 |
TOTAL IN-PERSON |
| BUDA CITY HALL | 12,078 | 866 | 12,944 |
| DRIPPING SPRINGS PARK RANCH | 9,425 | 522 | 9,947 |
| HAYS COUNTY GOVERNMENT CENTER | 8,894 | 705 | 9,599 |
| HAYS COUNTY PRECINCT 4 | 8,311 | 523 | 8,834 |
| HCISD ADMINISTRATION | 7,068 | 564 | 7,632 |
| KYLE CITY HALL | 6,295 | 572 | 6,867 |
| LIVE OAK ACADEMY | 5,171 | 311 | 5,482 |
| LIVE OAK HEALTH | 3,370 | 336 | 3,706 |
| SCUDDER PRIMARY | 2,486 | 120 | 2,606 |
| TEXAS STATE PERFORMANCE ARTS CENTER | 6,722 | 761 | 7,483 |
| WIMBERLEY COMMUNITY CENTER | 5,899 | 257 | 6,156 |
| YARRINGTON | 3,645 | 210 | 3,855 |
| TOTAL | 79,350 | 5747 | 85,097 |
Where we get our numbers: Texas Secretary of State
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Prior to May 13, 2020, Jordan Buckley AKA Mano Amiga had been heavily involved here in Hays County with the Census Coordinator for Hays County, Jessica Mejia, who had been appointed by Commissioners Court Judge Judge Ruben Becerra “to assist in helping the County’s Complete Count Committee (CCC) ensure all persons living in Hays County are counted.”
Becerra at that time noted there are no questions about citizenship on the Census form, and that information on the Census form is not shared with any other organization or government agency and cannot be released for 72 years.
Ah …..but on May 13, 2020 Anita Collins, executive assistant to Becerra read a letter from Mejia to the commissioners court describing recent “public service announcements” which Mejia said she had been making to certain “hard-to-count communities”, as did cause her supervisor, Director of Countywide Services, to unfairly terminate Mejia’s position. Collins would not reveal the substance of Mejia’s “announcements” –only that they had related to “public safety.”
How did Becerra respond…? He said, “I feel that politics has taken the place of public safety.”
Thus, welcome to the New Hays County, where Public Safety = Jordan Buckley AKA Mano Amiga
The same outfit that murdered officer Justin Putnam and wounded two others has now registered its voter base.