The pace has picked up in early voting for next weekend’s city election, though we’re still behind the pace for the 2005 election (which featured the strong mayor initiative).  Through Saturday, some 32,000 people voted, about 5,300 a day. That compares to 6,500 a day in 2005.

We’re about where we were in the 2007 election, which included the mayor’s race. Interestingly, we’re far ahead of the pace in the Trinity referendum in 2007, when just 3,100 people voted early each day.

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What does this mean for the hotel vote and the council race between incumbent Jerry Allen and challenger Don Sanders? A higher early voter turnout is probably good news for those who don’t want to build the hotel, as well as for Sanders. And almost 2,500 people have voted early at the Audelia library, compared to the 2,234 turnout for all of early voting in 2007 at the Lake Highlands site. That’s also the highest among the 49 Dallas county locations.