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Mild turnout continues for early voting
Friday, December 12, 2014 by Elizabeth Pagano
By Thursday night, 41,027 people had voted in the Travis County runoff elections. That’s 7.43 percent of the registered voters in the county. On Thursday alone, 3,704 people voted. The two busiest voting locations yesterday were the Randalls at Research Boulevard and Braker Lane, which saw 573 people casting ballots, and the Ben Hur Shrine Center, which saw 508. The least busy location was the Pflugerville County Tax Office, which was visited by just 16 voters. Today is the last day of early voting for the runoff election. Election Day is Tuesday.
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