JASPER, Texas — Early voting starts Monday in Texas in the Nov. 5 election. Those eligible to vote in jasper County will have two weeks ahead of Election Day to cast their ballot at locations in Jasper County.
This year, the country will decide if Vice President Kamala Harris will be getting a promotion to the top job or if former President Donald Trump will return to the Resolute Desk.
Voters will also have a chance to weigh in on several other national, state and local races on the ballot this year. Here in Texas, polling in a closely-watched race for U.S. Senate shows Sen. Ted Cruz (R) and Congressman Colin Allred (D) are neck and neck. In Jasper County voters will be voting for U.S. House Districts 36 as well as in two school board races, a school tax rate election and a bond election.
Jasper County: Early voting locations | Sample ballot
Buna and Evadale ISD voters will be deciding on a school board trustee while Kirbyville ISD voters will be making a decision on a tax rate. The few Vidor ISD voters in the county will be voting in that district's $98.4 million bond election.
Contested local races in Jasper County:
- Evadale ISD Trustee, Place 6
- Nathaniel Drake*
- WT Humble
- Vidor ISD Prop A
- The issuance of $98,400,000 school building bonds by the Vidor Independent School District for the design, construction, acquisition, renovation, expansion, improvement and equipment of school buildings in the district, including (1) classroom additions, expansion, renovations and related building improvements and equipment to and for each of Pine Forest Elementary School, Vidor Elementary School, Oak Forest Elementary School and Vidor Middle School in conjunction with closing the existing Vidor Junior High School campus and making the existing Vidor Junior High School campus Vidor Middle School campus into one school campus for grades 6, 7 and 8 and (2) classroom additions, renovations and related building improvements and equipment to Vidor High School, and the levying of at ax sufficient to pay the principal of and interest on the bonds and the costs of any related credit agreements. This is a property tax increase.
- Buna ISD Trustee (pick four)
- Joey Broom*
- Peggy Talmadge
- Suzy Thomas
- William "Pete" Bond
- Cody Goins
- Sherri Hickerson
- Allan Bivens
- Diedra Robinson
- Rickey Midkiff, Jr.
- Mark Mueller
- Kirbyville CISD Tax Rate Election
- Ratifying the ad valorem tax rate of $1.0668 per $100 valuation in Kirbyville Consolidated Independent School District for the current year, a rate that will result in an increase of 5 percent in maintenance and operations tax revenue for the District for the current year as compared to the preceding year, which is an additional $130,916.
* Incumbent