By LYNETTE SOWELL-STEVENS
Cove Leader-Press
Local voters have turned out in force during the first two days of early voting.
Altogether, a total of 3,652 ballots have been cast in Coryell County as of Tuesday.
This greatly outpaces the first two days of early voting in the November 2025 election, when 675 voters cast ballots.
Compared to the November 2025 election, early voting in November 2025 saw a total of 3,994 Coryell County voters cast ballots countywide during the entire time period.
For the Copperas Cove Early Voting Center, 1,989 voters cast ballots, 1,259 cast ballots in Gatesville, and a total of 404 mail-in ballots were received as of Tuesday.
Where the City of Copperas Cove and Copperas Cove ISD elections are concerned, 1,677 ballots were cast for the City election, with the Copperas Cove ISD election seeing 1,954 voters.
Early voting runs daily through Friday, Oct. 30.
Polls are open Friday, Oct. 23, from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Weekend voting hours are Saturday, Oct. 24 from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m., and Sunday, Oct. 25, from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Polls will be open Oct. 26-30 from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m.
There are two early voting centers in Coryell County.
The Copperas Cove Early Voting Center is located in the Coryell County Tax OFFIce, at 809 S. Main St., in the rear of the building. The other is the Gatesville Annex, 800 E. Main St., Ste B. Gatesville.
A total of five local races and one City of Copperas Cove proposition are included on the Nov. 3 local election ballot.
For the Copperas Cove city council, Places 6 and 7 are up for election with a total of six candidates for the three open positions.
Victor Hall II, Jay Manning and Jesus Mendez Jr. are on the ballot for Place 6.
Trae Cunningham, William Smith, and Dana Wall are on the ballot for Place 7.
If neither of the city council races has a candidate who receives more than 50 percent of the vote, that race would go into a runoff election.
James Ortiz and Emily Urquidez are running for Place 5, Trang Nguyen and Inez Faison are running for Place 6. James “JC” Stubbs and Jeff Gorres are running for Place 7.
Proposition A is being put to Copperas Cove voters regarding the use of a portion of the city’s sales tax revenue for street maintenance projects. The amount is 0.25%.
This is not a new tax or proposition for voters but would serve to keep that funding in place.
Voters first approved this use of funds in the 2017 election, and since 2018 the funds have gone into the city’s street maintenance fund, which was created at the same time.
Texas voters will also be deciding a number of state and national races as well with the Nov. 3 general election.
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