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Texas sees huge turnout on first day of early voting with over 1M ballots cast

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Texas saw a huge turnout on the first day of early voting Tuesday, with some of the state's biggest counties reporting a record number of ballots cast.

The Lone Star State has already topped 1.1 million votes with more weeks of voting still to come -- a record, according to the Houston Chronicle.

Early voting in Texas started on Tuesday, Oct. 13 and runs through Oct. 30. Election Day is Nov. 3. Harris County, a heavily Democratic county that is the state's most populous, by far had the biggest turnout, with close to 170,000 ballots cast either in-person or via mail-in voting as of Wednesday morning.

By comparison, the county had cast 130,000 ballots on the first day of early voting in 2016. Who early voting benefits in the state remains.

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