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Early voting ended Tuesday with a late surge, but it wasn’t enough to spike expectations of another dreary local election turnout.A total of 46,068 people cast ballots in Bexar County’s nine days of early voting.
As a rule of thumb, about half the voters in local elections show up for early balloting, and the other half waits for election day. If that holds true this cycle, overall turnout could come in around 92,000.
That would translate to only 11 percent of the county’s registered voters.
Election day is Saturday.
The early voting numbers are sad. Go vote people. I know municipal elections aren’t glamorous but most of the politics that affect you is local. Sure it matters when federally they kiss up to the bank lobbies and your fees go up but how you get from one place to another and whether the park you bring your kids to is clean is all local. How clean your child’s school is local as is whether they will be in a mobile home converted into a classroom or an actual classroom. There is a $306 million bond for streets, bridges and sidewalks, a $152 million bond for drainage improvements, a $79 million bond for parks, an $11 million bond for libraries, and a $800,000 bond for public health. Northside independent school district has a $662 million bond up for review and Northeast independent school district has a $482 million bond.
There is a proposition for a constitutional amendment authorizing the legislature to provide for a reduction of the limitation on the total amount of ad valorem taxes that may be imposed for public school purposes on the residence homesteads of the elderly or disabled to reflect any reduction in the rate of those taxes for the 2006 and 2007 tax years.
Just go vote, these are the issues and people that will affect you the most in the next few years and your voice matters.
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