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TJ Aulds: November 2007 Archives


Election turnout expected to be dismal

3:31 PM Tue, Nov 06, 2007 |
TJ Aulds

3:35 p.m.: Posted by TJ Aulds from KHOU.com election central:

Not even a Las Vegas bookmaker would take these odds. With very few hot-button issues on the ballot, this off-year election, poll workers have been awfully lonely across the area.
Harris County Clerk Beverly Kaufman, who oversees elections here, predicts a 10 percent voter turnout this election.
That's 10 percent of 1.8 million registered voters in Harris County.
To put that in perspective, that means 180,000 people will decide if Houston ISD gets $800 million in bond mo...