Voters across the state have flooded early polling centers for this mid-term election, including those locations in Guadalupe County.
The Guadalupe County Elections Office has recorded 37,000 ballots cast in the 2018 election cycle, not including the 2,782 mail ballots or hundreds of limited ballots received, Elections Administrator Lisa Adam said.
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