Early Voting: Poll Locations

Okay, so you’ve been asleep since last July. It was too hot. You turned up the AC and went to bed. Now it’s late October, you wake up and remember there are elections coming due Nov. 5.

What to do? Well, for starters, it’s too late to get a politiquera job. That train has left the station along with the white Caddies driven by the most successful vote-getters.

Still, by simply casting a vote, you can try to affect election outcomes at the local, state, and national level, good or bad.

Early voting is the easiest process.You can skip the long lines of voters Nov. 5, which is akin to Christmas shopping on Christmas Eve, and you can vote at any location.

Can’t get any easier than that.

Depending on where you live, if you’re still not sure where to vote if you do wait until election day, go online and search for: “Hidalgo County Elections Department.” That county site will tell you anything and everything you need to know about casting your vote either early or on election day. The locations, the times, what you need to bring to the polling place.

Note to politiqueras: No, not people from nursing homes diagnosed with dementia.

Plus, you still can’t vote twice or outside your residential district for local elections, which actually turned out to be the case in the November 2021 Edinburg mayor ’s race.

Last but not least, if you still can’t find the info you’re looking for, the Elections Department actually has a phone number (a landline, no less) listed in plain sight on its website: 956-318-2570. A living person will actually pick up the call, which is becoming more of a rarity these days.

Attached above, the polling places where registered voters can cast their ballot during the early-voting period, which lasts through Nov. 1.