Question

In Terrance county, 85% of eligible voters are registered to vote, and government records from a recent gubernatorial election indicate that 60% of registered voters actually voted in the election. If there are 21,800 eligible voters in Terrance County, how many people voted in the recent gubernatorial election?

Answer 1

The Texas secretary of state’s office reported a tally of 9,669,246 votes for early voting Saturday morning, as some county data continued to trickle in. This year’s turnout for early voting alone exceeded the state’s entire turnout of 8,969,226 in 2016, when the state voted for Donald Trump with a margin of 9 percentage points.

In 2016, turnout for registered voters in Texas was 59.4%, lending credence to its reputation for low turnout. With current early voting totals, the state has already hit 57% turnout, and more than half of registered voters have voted in 128 of the state’s 254 counties. In 29 Texas counties, there was a 60% turnout or better.

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