{"id":210,"date":"2022-10-24T17:06:08","date_gmt":"2022-10-24T17:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/texas\/press-releases\/early-voting-in-the-2022-midterm-election-begins-this-monday-oct-24\/"},"modified":"2022-10-24T17:06:08","modified_gmt":"2022-10-24T17:06:08","slug":"early-voting-in-the-2022-midterm-election-begins-this-monday-oct-24","status":"publish","type":"press","link":"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/texas\/press\/early-voting-in-the-2022-midterm-election-begins-this-monday-oct-24\/","title":{"rendered":"Early Voting in the 2022 Midterm Election Begins This Monday, Oct. 24"},"template":"","class_list":["post-210","press","type-press","status-publish","hentry","press_type-press-release"],"acf":{"details":{"summary":"Texas voters can make their voices heard in the November 8 midterm election beginning today, October 24 through Friday, November 4.","featured_image":"","press_type":153,"authors":["{\"site_id\":\"1\",\"post_type\":\"person\",\"post_id\":7779}"],"related_issues":[116,117,406],"related_work":false,"location":52},"sidebar":{"helper_enable_sidebar":false,"helper_media_contact":{"heading":"Media Contact","manually_enter_person":false,"person":null,"name":"","role":"","phone":"","email":""},"helper_links_downloads":{"heading":"Links & Downloads","links":null}},"page_layout":[{"acf_fc_layout":"layout_wysiwyg","_acfe_flexible_toggle":null,"component_wysiwyg":{"content":"<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">All Texas voters can cast a ballot ahead of Election Day<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\r\n<b>AUSTIN, TX<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u2014 Texas voters can make their voices heard in the November 8 midterm election beginning <\/span><b>today, October 24 through Friday, November 4.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Voters can cast a ballot in-person or by mail. The state requires that early voting begins 17 days before state biennial elections.<\/span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\"We're expecting historic levels of participation in this election and we've built a Texas-sized grassroots operation to meet the challenge,\u201d said <\/span><b>Marliza Marin, Common Cause Texas Election Protection Organizer.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u201cOur coalition is working hard to ensure that votes and votes alone determine the winners and losers of this historic election \u2013 not suppression, confusion or administration issues.\"<\/span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Texas Election Protection Coalition is led by a coalition of nonpartisan organizations such as Common Cause Texas, Texas Civil Rights Project, the League of Women Voters of Texas, and ACLU-Texas. Our Election Protection operation for 2022 is aiming to recruit 3,500 volunteers to assist Texans in every corner of the state.<\/span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\"If anyone has a question about voting or runs into a problem, we strongly encourage them to call our nonpartisan 866-OUR-VOTE hotline, or look around for one of our volunteer poll monitors wearing the black-and-white t-shirts,\" added <strong>Marin<\/strong>.<\/span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In Texas, each county sets its own voting locations and the hours for each location. However, each county is required to offer early voting for a minimum number of hours. To find early voting locations and hours by city or town, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.votetexas.gov\/voting\/where.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">click here<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To learn more about early voting in Texas, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.votetexas.gov\/voting\/early-voting.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">click here<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. <\/span>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">###\u00a0<\/span><\/p>"}}]},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.6 (Yoast SEO v27.1.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Early Voting in the 2022 Midterm Election Begins This Monday, Oct. 24 - Common Cause Texas<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/texas\/press-releases\/early-voting-in-the-2022-midterm-election-begins-this-monday-oct-24\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Early Voting in the 2022 Midterm Election Begins This Monday, Oct. 24\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/texas\/press\/early-voting-in-the-2022-midterm-election-begins-this-monday-oct-24\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Common Cause Texas\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/texas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/common-cause-share-image.png\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"630\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/png\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/texas\/press-releases\/early-voting-in-the-2022-midterm-election-begins-this-monday-oct-24\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/texas\/press-releases\/early-voting-in-the-2022-midterm-election-begins-this-monday-oct-24\/\",\"name\":\"Early Voting in the 2022 Midterm Election Begins This Monday, Oct. 24 - 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