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The Voice of Seguin Today
Volume 55 • Number 211 830 • 379 • 2234
Guadalupe County provides a recap
of Tuesday’s General Election
By Cindy Aguirre-Herrera
(Seguin) -- Although Election Day is not reporting the record number of voters that were expected in Guadalupe County, the county still managed to pull in record numbers overall. That’s according to Lisa Hayes, the Guadalupe County elections administrator.
Fire Destroys pair of homes
Two families were displaced after a fire ripped through the two homes Tuesday night. At least one person was injured but has since been treated and released. See story on page 2. Photos courtesy of Seguin Fire Dept. FB page.
“I think election day in Guadalupe County overall went very smoothly. We were prepared for a tremendous voter turnout. We were prepared for the kind of voter turnout on election day that we had seen in early voting. Maybe not, of course, the same number of voters but the first week of early voting, the voters turned out in droves and they stood line very patiently to wait to make their voice heard and so, we were prepared for that kind of response on election day and the voters did turnout to vote. I don’t believe we had record setting turnout but the voters did turn out to vote and things went very smoothly and I think overall, considering that it was a presidential election in a pandemic, I think everything went very well,” said Hayes. Hayes says the numbers across the board were pretty tremendous and
applauds all those who came out to exercise their right.
“Early voting we saw 60,800 voters. Election Day we had 9, 411 voters. We had mail ballots also. We had 7,566 voters who voted by mail so the grand total, the unofficial numbers right now are 77,777 voters,” said Hayes. Hayes says Texas Governor Greg Abbott’s decision to add an extra week to the early voting schedule definitely filtered out the lines on Election Day.
“I think that that extra week is actually what is responsible for the lower election day numbers. I think that the voters had that opportunity and they took it and they ran with it and I think that is fabulous. That’s what it was there for. We wanted the voters to come out and take that opportunity to vote early and they did,” said Hayes. Now although the elections office has released the results of Tuesday’s Nov. 3 election, those results are still very much “unofficial.” Hayes says her office still has plenty of work in
ensuring that every ballot is counted.
“Keep in mind also, we had over 1,000 provisional ballots cast and so we have until close of business on the ninth of November for anyone who like voted a provisional because they didn’t have their ID or any thing like that, they have until that date to come in and cure their ballot to make it countable and that’s also the deadline for late and overseas ballots to come and we still do have mail ballots outstanding that will be countable potentially so these are still unofficial numbers until all of this data comes back that is countable and until the election is canvassed, these are all unofficial numbers and they will change,” said Hayes. According to Hayes, there are currently 312 outstanding mail ballots that are still eligible to be counted through 5 p.m. Monday, Nov. 9. Now while she doesn’t expect the provisional or mail ballots to change any of the reported outcomes, she does expect that the numbers themselves will change. Again, she says the results are unofficial until canvassed by the various entities and deemed official. See RECAP. page 2