A record first week of early voting in Harris County as the county clerk reports voters have cast more than 54000 in-person ballots during the first four days.
A record first week of early voting in Harris County as the county clerk reports voters have cast more than 54,000 in-person ballots during the first four days. FOX 26's Jade Flury breaks down which age group is voting the most.is doing record numbers for the first week of early voting. The county clerk reports that voters have cast more than 54,000 in-person ballots during the first four days. While the first-week statistics are promising, the trend for young voters is still lagging.
"At the end of the day, an overwhelming majority of younger voters will not turn out at the mayoral election," said Mark Jones, a professor of political science at Rice University. RELATED:"A truism in American politics is that younger people vote at a much lower rate than older people. That’s especially the case in local elections," said Jones.
"You have many younger voters who don’t know a mayoral election is occurring. Even if the ones that do know it’s occurring, may not know if they live in Houston or not," said Jones. "We’ve seen a lot of older citizens you know, 55 and older and up, coming out here to vote. The average age of Harris County is and the city of Houston is 60," said Tomaro Bell, the president of Super Neighborhood 83- MacGregor. "Social media is an amazing thing. In this race that we’re in now, what people thought would hurt a candidate, actually helped them because it was on social media," said Bell.
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