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Error in Spanish found on voting mailer sent to registered voters
Error in Spanish found on voting mailer sent to registered voters By Melanie Camacho | April 26, 2021 at 10:43 PM CDT - Updated April 27 at 2:27 AM
LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) - KCBD is highlighting an error found in the Spanish section of the voter mailer sent out to registered households in Lubbock County. The mailer says election day is Tuesday, May 1st. However, the correct date is Saturday, May 1st.
Tuesday is the last day of early voting. Polls will open at 8 a.m. and close at 8 p.m. Tuesday. On Saturday on Election Day, polls will up at 7 a.m. and close at 7 p.m.
Unsecured voting machines found during campaign event in Shallowater
Voting machines found unsecured in Shallowater By Blair Sabol | April 23, 2021 at 8:58 PM CDT - Updated April 23 at 10:58 PM
SHALLOWATER, Texas (KCBD) - Alderman David Brugel hosted a campaign event at the Shallowater Community Center last Friday, a place that is also used as an early voting location. During the event at the Center, also known as The Clubhouse, several voting machines lay behind an unsecured door.
County Commissioner Jason Corley, who was in attendance, made the discovery.
“[I] walked into the kitchen area, and on the way to the bathroom looked over and saw the voting machines. And said, ‘oh that’s a problem,’” Corley said.
Special election propositions send Lubbock voters to cast early ballots
Special election propositions send Lubbock voters to cast early ballots By Kase Wilbanks | April 19, 2021 at 7:48 PM CDT - Updated April 19 at 8:57 PM
“Typically it’s not a lot of turnout, not anything what we’ve saw during the governor’s [election] years or presidential,” Lubbock County Elections Administrator Dorothy Kennedy said. “But these, I think in my mind, are very important elections.”
Turnout on April 10 for the first day of early voting is the second-highest going back to 2009 when the issue of alcohol sales in Lubbock County was on the ballot. That first day brought out more than 5,800 voters.
Voter registration deadline tomorrow for May special election kcbd.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from kcbd.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.