For nearly half a million Texas voters, Election Day’s already over. Early voting allows those with minds set and schedules tight to cast a ballot anytime this week or next — and numbers from the Texas secretary of state show twice as many people are taking advantage of the option as did in 2006. The percentage of registered voters in the state's 15 largest counties who have already cast their ballots has jumped from 2.7 percent after the first three days in '06, the last gubernatorial election cycle, to 5.2 percent in the first three days this ...

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