More than 10,000 Nueces County voters had cast ballots for the Nov. 3 general election by the end of the first day of early voting, according to unofficial numbers from the Nueces County Clerk’s Office.
As of Monday, Oct. 19, the county had received 10,091 ballots, or about 4.5% of its 223,047 registered voters. That includes 7,712 in-person votes and 2,379 mail-in ballots.
Monday’s 7,712 in-person voters is 1,234 more than the first day of early voting in the 2022 midterm, when 6,478 people voted in person. That’s an increase of about 19%…