Early Voting is underway. It started this last Tuesday and will run through next Tuesday, June 3rd. Election Day is June 7th.
Let’s get out and vote. Turnout was abysmally low for the May 3 Election (little more than 9% of registered voters in San Antonio voted). So, let’s help to change that.
In the first round of voting, I supported Beto Altamirano (which I wrote about here). In my perfect world, we’d have a runoff with two distinctly “local” campaigns. We’d choose from Beto and one of our councilmembers, perhaps the District 4 Councilwoman of the last six years, Adriana Rocha Garcia.
Alas, this isn’t that world.
The mechanics of the mayoral race should be scrutinized. Anyone who pays $100 can get their name on the ballot, which is the core reason we ended up with 27 candidates to choose