Tag: voting

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What you need to know for upcoming primary election

Haylie Godoy

The Primary Election begins tomorrow, March 5. To be eligible to vote in this election, voters must have been registered before February 5. Anyone not able to vote in this Primary election cycle still has time to register for the November general election. Here are a few things you’ll need to know before heading to the polls. The Primary elections are where voters pick which candidate will represent their party in the upcoming November elections. According to Paul Gottemoller, Associate Professor of Political Science, the primaries are the biggest fight because it directly influences the outcome of the November election.…

Editorial

They help us, it’s time to help them

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Voting is a fundamental right of being an American, one that Texans will be able to partake in Nov. 7 in a constitutional amendment election. That is, if you knew it was happening. Texas is notoriously a low-voting state, with the Huffington Post putting Texas as the fifth lowest voting state in the nation in 2016. During the last election, roughly 55 percent of the eligible population voted compared with the state of Minnesota, which had around 75 percent of its eligible population vote. While more than half of the state voting doesn’t seem too bad, the real problem comes…

Campus, Collegiate

Texans set to vote on new amendments

Omar Mickelson

omickelson@foghornnews.com Last year’s local and presidential elections caused some commotion around East Campus, with voting booths set up in the Heldenfels Administration Building, inviting voters from off campus and on to come and cast their ballots early. However, this election season, which will include a “constitutional amendment election” Nov. 7, hasn’t really caused too much of a stir. Nueces County Clerk Kara Sands said the aim of this particular election is not to elect government officials into any certain position. Instead, it will allow voters to decide on certain items passed by the Texas House of Representatives, all of which…

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Early voting totals up from 2012

Priscilla Barba

Irritated by Donald Trump’s indirect answers to questions and Hillary Clinton’s tendency to fluctuate on her interests and standards, James Hinojosa decided to not vote this year. “The candidates don’t really appeal to me,” Hinojosa said. Despite what many Americans see as a tough decision this year, many others have indeed cast ballots. Some 50,369 Nueces County residents had voted early as of Nov. 2, the 10th day of early voting. Just 48,172 had voted by the same time in 2012. Del Mar College’s Heldenfels Administration Building, an early voting location, saw 2,710 cast ballots through the first 10 days…