With five days of early voting still to go, about 46% of registered voters have already turned out for the November 3 general election in Bastrop County, and the number of ballots cast has surpassed the total from early voting during the previous presidential election in 2016. During the first week of early voting, from Tuesday, October 13 to Sunday, October 18, a total of 15,148 ballots were cast, including mail-in ballots. This was about 29% of Bastrop County’s 52,203 registered voters. According to the Bastrop County Elections Department, 1,673 people voted on Monday, October 19; on Tuesday, 1,614 people voted; on ...