I voted on the very first day of early voting and was at the polls at about 8:15. Noticed a few people in line and I was ecstatic--I've never seen a line to vote early in Texas, not even in a presidential race, and definitely not on a college campus that early in the morning. I wasn't sure about a few of the municipal ballot provisions and I hadn't yet nailed down my nonpartisan local races, so I sat down and worked those out for about fifteen minutes or so before I got up to go vote. The line had gotten longer in the meanwhile--there were maybe a dozen people ahead of me then. So I stood there for a few minutes chattering excitedly with the undergrad standing behind me until it was my turn and then bounced right up to the ballot. I did vote a straight Dem ticket, but I also distinctly checked my ballot at the end and didn't get hit by the error with the Senate vote, so I cast my vote for Beto O' Rourke as I intended to.

I've seen long, long lines at both the UT Austin polling stations throughout early voting season. Today I am not on campus for reasons of terror, but I have faith in my county to get the vote out despite Republican attempts to suppress it statewide.