Early voting shows interest in Fort Worth mayor’s race
Early voting ended Tuesday for seven runoffs and one tax rate proposition, and the turnout indicates that interest in the race for Fort Worth mayor has not waned much from the original May election.
Nearly as many people voted early in the runoff between Fort Worth mayoral candidates Jim Lane and Betsy Price as voted early in May, according to figures released Tuesday night by the Tarrant County Elections Office. In May, there were 17,723 early voters in the five-way race. In early voting in the runoff, 16,152 voters cast ballots. The Keller school district’s proposition to raise the tax rate for daily operations by 13 cents also drew early voters, with 7,476 votes cast. Election day is Saturday. City Council runoffs are set in Fort Worth, Arlington, Forest Hill, Keller and White Settlement. The Mansfield school district has runoffs for two trustee places. Tarrant County Elections Administrator Steve Raborn said runoff turnout doesn’t follow a reliable pattern. “It depends on who’s on the ballot,” he said. The Fort Worth mayor’s race has sustained voter interest from the original race, but “Forest Hill is way down. The draw in the May election was that city’s mayor’s race. We don’t have that this time.”Similar Posts:
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