HOUSTON – Friday is the last day of early voting. That means if you haven’t already voted early, if you don’t vote by 7pm, you’ll have to wait until Election Day on November 5th.

In Harris County, more than 1 million people cast their ballots early.

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The county clerk says the number is about the same as the 2016 and 2020 presidential elections. While the 2020 numbers may be odd because of the pandemic, on this last day of early voting, some lines are long, while others look pretty good .

“We’re actually sitting here at one of our early voting centers, which is Baker Ripley Aldine. So if you are in this area or nearby, you can come here to vote early. There is plenty of parking. Come in. Go vote. Take a selfie and show us the sticker you won,” smiles Harris County Teneshia Hudspeth.

“It’s my first time voting. It’s kind of cool to be there with all the people knowing that they’re doing the same as you, to have their voices heard. It was fun. Me and my mom took a picture,” 18. -said old Sean Barreto, but young Sean might be a little more excited about voting than his peers.

Here in Texas, an estimated 12 percent of all early voters are between the ages of 18 and 29, compared to 14 percent in 2020.

Four years ago and now, 52% of early voters are women.

If you wait until Election Day, there will be 700 polling places in Harris County.

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“We have a countywide polling place program here in Harris County. We’ve been doing that since 2019. So early voting and election day, you can vote absolutely anywhere,” Hudspeth said.

The voting season was mostly uneventful. Although a lawsuit was filed this week claiming that thousands of people in Harris County should have been removed as active voters.

“Who are either dead and should not be on the electoral rolls, who are ineligible based on citizenship status and a few other minor categories. But most of the 569,000 fell into a category where the registrar of voters had taken the national change. of the mailing list from the postal service and balancing it with the voter list, that person would have been on the suspense list (What is the problem with these names still on the voter lists?) It opens up opportunities for voter fraud,” says . Attorney Jared Woodfill.

Harris County District Attorney Christian Menefee says, “The people who filed this lawsuit are partisans playing political games. Two of them are candidates on the ballot. The third is Steve Hotze, who has made several attempts to override the voice of Harris County voters. In 2020, he filed a lawsuit to try to throw away over 127,000 votes. Now he is trying to remove names from the voter rolls just days before the election. I am committed to fighting this extremism and want to continue to encourage eligible voters to make their voices heard.”

Again, early voting ends Friday evening at 7:00 p.m