Voter Registration

This election will be decided by a new generation of voters. Many of them are not registered and they don’t think there vote counts.
First, I am challenging you to register to vote:
http://www.bexar.org/elections/Registration/registration.html
If you are already a registered voter, you can use that same website to confirm your name is on the rolls. If [...]

Sad, sad voter turnout across the state

Online Bexar County Results
TOTAL VOTES Vote [...]

San Antonio Potential

Biotech and the San Antonio Economy - Vista, Spring 2003 - Dallas Fed

Conclusion
The U.S. biotechnology industry is highly concentrated in a handful of large cities that have well-established and world-renowned medical institutions and scientists. A recent Brookings Institution study found that nine metropolitan areas account for three-fourths of the nation’s largest biotech firms and three-fourths of [...]

Get out and vote

Early voting began last monday and runs through the 2nd. As of yesterday only 8,063 people have made it to the polls in Bexar County.
Here are the early voting polling places and calendar and times can be found here.
Bexar County Justice Center Brookhollow Library CPS Energy - (WW White) Claude Black Center Cody [...]

Get out and Vote

Nine hundred and thirty-two of us went out and voted yesterday. I know that it was only the first day of early voting but that is pathetic nonetheless. The sample ballot can be found here.
EVcounts
Amendment, Joint General, Special Elections November 6, 2007
BALLOTS CAST THIS DATE 932 October 22, 2007
Bexar County [...]

Go Vote

MySA.com: Politics
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 [...]

Early Voting Ends today

MySA.com: Politics
Early voting in Bexar County ends today at 8 p.m.
The polls have been open since April 30 for mayoral and City Council races in San Antonio and a handful of bedroom communities, the city’s $550 million bond package, school board races and several school bond issues.
Election day is Saturday.
Early Voting locations can be found [...]

Leon Valley will host voter forum

MySA.com: Politics
Candidates for the Leon Valley City Council, Places 1 and 5, have been invited to a forum being hosted April 30 by the League of Women Voters.
The forum will begin at 6:30 p.m. at the Leon Valley Conference Center, 6425 Evers Road. The election is May 12.
For more information, call (210) 921-5022.

Now if only Texas will do the same

Florida plans to return to paper ballot system | Chron.com - Houston Chronicle
DELRAY BEACH, FLA.— Gov. Charlie Crist on Thursday announced plans to abandon the touch-screen voting machines that many of Florida’s largest counties installed after the disputed 2000 presidential election. The state will instead adopt a system of casting paper ballots counted by scanning [...]

People in Glass Houses shouldn’t throw stones

ySA.com: Politics
He also faulted Rodríguez for taking $250 from Abdurahman Alamoudi, who was later convicted of conducting illegal business transactions with Libya. Left unsaid was that Alamoudi’s check came years before he was investigated and that Rodríguez was one of nine congressmen he sent money to, a list that also included Lee Hamilton, later named [...]