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Early voting closes throughout area
Published: May 3, 2000
Area early voting ended Tuesday for the city and school general election scheduled for Saturday.In Temple, 387 voters came out on the final day bringing the eight-day total to 1,355 early votes, according to Temple City Secretary Clydette EntzmingerShe said District 1 totaled 99 voters, and District 2 had 12. District 3 reported 148 voters, and District had 128, resulting with a cumulative 968 voters coming out during the early voting period.The ballot includes incumbent Keifer Marshall Jr. and District 3 councilman Scott Brookshire in the mayoral race, and incumbent George English and Fred Parker, publisher of the weekly newspaper Cen-Tex Community Times, for the District 2 council position.Veterinarian Lance Crews; Connie Madsen, director of volunteer services and quality coordinator at King's Daughters Hospital; and Martha Tyroch, vocational rehabilitation specialist at the Olin E. Teague Veterans' Center, are competing for the District 3 council post, and incumbent Sally Myers and Jimmy Ray, visually-impaired president of the Temple chapter of the National Federation for the Blind, are opponents in the District 4 council race.