Rafael has formed and expected to become a late season hurricane in the Gulf
Houston woman has voted in every election since 1948
Are you someone who prefers to early vote and get it out of the way?
Episode Transcript
Sunday ninety nine point one, Houston's Best Variety of the
eighties nineties, and Today Dana in the Morning and producer
Anthony and the three Things you need to Know.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
To get your Election Day.
Speaker 1 (00:12):
It is Tuesday, November fifth, started, and it's a storm
alert day too. Now.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
The polls have been opened since seven.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
They'll be open until seven tonight, but we've had some
strong storms around and it looks like the range should
be clearing.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
Out around nine this morning.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
Then you'll be free to go vote now, despite Texas
leaders saying it's illegal. Federal election monitors are on their
way to Harris County and we have learned that more
than a million came out to vote early in Harris County. Now,
our sister station, News Radio seven forty KTRH, they're going
to begin election coverage tonight at seven when the polls close.
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Shara and Jimmy gonna be here for as long as
they need to continue to give us the results as
they came in come in. You can download the iHeartRadio app.
It's totally free. Just search New Radio seven forty atrh
and remember today is November fifth, it's still hurricane season
until the thirtieth and Raphael is forming in the Caribbean.
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It will become a hurricane before it enters the Gulf.
The path we still don't know, still uncertain, and whether
it impacts Texas, it can't be ruled out. So we'll
keep you keep you posted on that. Now, whether today,
like I said, we've got a storm alert morning, then
it should start clearing out around nine.
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Right now, it's seventy four in Uptown and you're up
to date. I'm sunny.
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Tell me something good brought to us by our friends
at Goodwill Houston. It's election day and this is going
to make your election day a bit easier. Now. Remember,
several counties allow you to vote at any location in
the county. Only Montgomery and Waller Counties. You need to
vote in a signed precinct, so there'll be some areas
that are more crowded than others.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
How do you find out you can?
Speaker 1 (01:59):
Harris has set up their website with all the details
on the crowds at each voting locations. You can just
check out Harris votes dot com. Real Simple producer Anthony.
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Dane in a story to inspire you to do your
civic duty. There's a one hundred and one year old
Houston woman who's voted in every election since nineteen forty eight.
Her name is Mary Adkins, and she says going with
her dad to vote became a tradition that continued until
she herself was eligible to vote and for context, back
in nineteen forty eight, her first election would have been
the one with Harry Truman, that famous Dewey defeats Truman
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headline on the newspaper. Right, and what's funny is her daughter,
Susan says they made a bit of a stir when
they went to vote.
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And everyone found out she was one hundred and one.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
Mary says that voting never gets old no matter how
many times you go. So there's your motivation to get
out and do your civic duty, because if this one
hundred and one year old lady can do it, so
can you.
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That's incredible, right wow.
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And this suburb, these suburbs, I should say, the number
one and two hottest selling in our area according to
the Houston Association of Realtors, Those.
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Of you in Brookshire and Waller, yep. Number one and two.
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The demand for new construction is rising, the affordability and
the amenities. Now number three is Conroe Northeast Montrose Inside
the Loop came in at number seven, and Dayton rounding
out the top ten. And we lots of listeners in
all those areas, so one of them congratulations. And we
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Point one, Houston's best variety of the.
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Eighties, nineties and today and our nearly impossible question This morning,
we were talking about lucky charms. Maybe if you really
want your candidate to win, you've got your lucky socks on.
That was the answer to our nearly impossible question. Or
you're a prayerful person and you just pray a lot.
But we wanted to ask you about your strategy early
voting or do you make it a big deal and
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go out and vote on election day? And we have
got Lisa calling in from Cyprus. Now you hang out
with your little girl.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
How old is she? She's eight?
Speaker 4 (04:08):
She's a baby anymore?
Speaker 2 (04:10):
Oh, she's your little girl. Though, so what do you do.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
Do you wait for election day just to kind of
teach her about your civic duty or did you vote
early just in case you never know what election day
is going to bring.
Speaker 4 (04:21):
This is actually one of my first times that I've
gone early voting, and I actually went on a Friday,
and I realized why there was so much traffic every
day when it was crossing the street in the area.
So it was it was nice to go because it
was pretty quick and convenient, easy to find a parking spot.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
Oh you never I mean, if you go to Harris
County their Harris votes dot com, they actually have this
feature on their website where you can see how crowded
each location is on election day.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
Yes, but with early voting, you kind of just walk in.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
There's two or three people there, walk right out, walk
right out right.
Speaker 4 (04:59):
We had quite a few people over here, so there
wasn't two or three, but the line moves very quickly.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
Yeah, that it moves. Yeah, And then you get your
sticker and what's your daughter's name?
Speaker 4 (05:08):
Ava?
Speaker 1 (05:09):
Well, thank you for sharing that, Lisa, and a little
bit of your wisdom, and we certainly appreciate you listening
to Sonny and thank you for going out and voting.
Speaker 4 (05:18):
Thank you so much, and we listen to you every day.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
Let's sit over to Cypress and speak with Tyler. Since
it's a rainy day. You're driving from Cyprus to m.
D Anderson and we didn't know how much rain we
were going to get on election day?
Speaker 2 (05:30):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (05:30):
Did you vote early just in case the weather was crazy?
Or is today you're voting day?
Speaker 4 (05:35):
I voted early?
Speaker 2 (05:36):
Oh okay, Like what's your strategy? Why do you vote early?
Speaker 1 (05:40):
Well? I had a voting close to me, so I
decided to just get done. That's doesn't make you feel good,
like you just feel like you know what?
Speaker 2 (05:49):
This was a rush to me, and by golly, I'm
going to use it. Oh yes, right, do you have
any kids? I do not know.
Speaker 4 (05:56):
I'm kidless, souse.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
I was wondering, you know, if we can share kind
of our civic duty with our kids.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
Do you talk to anyone about voting?
Speaker 1 (06:05):
Or was this just kind of like I'm and Tyler
mode right now and I'm just gonna go do.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
It very much that I get in my civic duty done.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
Yeah, that is excellent, Tyler, will listen. You're a lucky
guy because this rain is kind of crazy. I know
it's going to taper off throughout the day, but at
least you got your voting done early. And Tyler, we're
so glad you listened to Sonny. What exactly do you
do it? M? D Anderson?
Speaker 3 (06:26):
I work in research for Oh, that's awesome, that's amazing cool.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
Well, thank you for doing that, and thanks for listening.
We appreciate you
Speaker 4 (06:35):
Of course, thank you so much.
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