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1/ THREAD: Democratic early voting surged across Texas. Democratic turnout more than doubled from four years ago, while Republican turnout rose less than 15 percent. #txlege #tx2018 bit.ly/2oGK4pG
2/ 370,219 Democrats voted early in the state’s 10 counties with the highest number of registered voters compared to 282,928 Republicans. #txlege #tx2018 bit.ly/2oGK4pG
3/ In 2014, Republicans outvoted Democrats in early voting in those ten counties 253,019 to 184,489. #txlege #tx2018 bit.ly/2oGK4pG
4/ When we factor population growth in these ten counties, Republican turnout was largely unchanged. Democratic turnout, however, was up in all ten counties except for Hidalgo County. #txlege #tx2018 bit.ly/2oGK4pG
5/ Let’s explore each big county’s turnout one-by-one. #txlege #tx2018 bit.ly/2oGK4pG
6/ In Harris County, 70,172 Democrats early voted this year. That’s up from 22,749 Democrats in 2014. #txlege #tx2018 bit.ly/2oGK4pG
7/ In Harris County, 61,462 Republicans early voted this year. That’s up from 57,772 Republicans in 2014. #txlege #tx2018 bit.ly/2oGK4pG
8/ In Dallas County, 63,411 Democrats early voted this year. That’s up from 32,802 Democrats in 2014. #txlege #tx2018 bit.ly/2oGK4pG
9/ In Dallas County, 33,115 Republicans early voted this year. That’s down from 34,632 Republicans in 2014. #txlege #tx2018 bit.ly/2oGK4pG
10/ In Tarrant County, 32,646 Democrats early voted this year. That’s up from 20,200 Democrats in 2014. #txlege #tx2018 bit.ly/2oGK4pG
11/ In Tarrant County, 47,697 Republicans early voted this year. That’s up from 44,069 Republicans in 2014. #txlege #tx2018 bit.ly/2oGK4pG
12/ In Bexar County, 42,530 Democrats early voted this year. That’s up from 25,673 Democrats in 2014. #txlege #tx2018 bit.ly/2oGK4pG
13/ In Bexar County, 33,299 Republicans early voted this year. That’s down from 34,227 Republicans in 2014. #txlege #tx2018 bit.ly/2oGK4pG
14/ In Travis County, 56,426 Democrats early voted this year. That’s up from 20,389 Democrats in 2014. #txlege #tx2018 bit.ly/2oGK4pG
15/ In Travis County, 19,396 Republicans early voted this year. That’s up from 14,957 Republicans in 2014. #txlege #tx2018 bit.ly/2oGK4pG
16/ In Collin County, 18,301 Democrats early voted this year. That’s up from 5,266 Democrats in 2014. #txlege #tx2018 bit.ly/2oGK4pG
17/ In Collin County, 36,821 Republicans early voted this year. That’s up from 24,967 Republicans in 2014. #txlege #tx2018 bit.ly/2oGK4pG
18/ In El Paso County, 26,175 Democrats early voted this year. That’s up from 16,995 Democrats in 2014. #txlege #tx2018 bit.ly/2oGK4pG
19/ In El Paso County, 5,279 Republicans early voted this year. That’s up from 4,967 Republicans in 2014. #txlege #tx2018 bit.ly/2oGK4pG
20/ In Hidalgo County, 32,701 Democrats early voted this year. That’s down from 33,276 Democrats in 2014. #txlege #tx2018 bit.ly/2oGK4pG
21/ In Hidalgo County, 3,848 Republicans early voted this year. That’s up from 3,662 Republicans in 2014. #txlege #tx2018 bit.ly/2oGK4pG
22/ In Denton County, 13,649 Democrats early voted this year. That’s up from 3,710 Democrats in 2014. #txlege #tx2018 bit.ly/2oGK4pG
23/ In Denton County, 25,003 Republicans early voted this year. That’s up 20,312 Republicans in 2014. #txlege #tx2018 bit.ly/2oGK4pG
24/ In Fort Bend County, 14,208 Democrats early voted this year. That’s up from 3,429 Democrats in 2014. #txlege #tx2018 bit.ly/2oGK4pG
25/25 In Fort Bend County, 17,008 Republicans early voted this year. That’s up 13,394 Republicans in 2014. #txlege #tx2018 bit.ly/2oGK4pG
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Day 11 (through Thursday) EV stats are in for the 30 largest counties in TX.

2018 - 35.39% of registered voters have cast a ballot (2.83% on Thursday). That's 4,337,435 votes.
2016 - 41.01% (3.51% on the 11th day)
2014 - 16.31% (1.92% on the 11th day)
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Full charts for all 30 counties at bit.ly/2018TXEarlyVote
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5. Collin County - 3.34%
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