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Ballot initiatives join races for office on ballots

Proposition 1 involves the funding of transportation projects in Texas.
NPR
Proposition 1 involves the funding of transportation projects in Texas.

Voters across the State of Texas will be headed to the polls Tuesday to choose their next governor. There have also been hotly contested races for the offices of lieutenant governor, senator, comptroller and more.

There is also a proposition on the ballot to increase the amount of funding available for building and maintaining roads in the state.

Voters in Hunt County will be helping choose the next region’s next state senator and deciding whether to allow beer and wine sales at stores in Caddo Mills and Campbell, along with a handful of city council and school board races.

Polls will be open between 7 a.m. and 7 p.m. Tuesday. Polling places and sample ballots are included in today’s Herald-Banner.

A total of 6,679 early ballots have been cast in Hunt County for the election, despite most races on a local level being decided during the March political party primary elections.

The contest for State Senate District 2 pits Republican Bob Hall, who defeated incumbent State Senator Bob Deuell of Greenville in the GOP primary, against Libertarian Don Bates.

In the race for Hunt County Justice of the Peace Precinct 4, Republican incumbent David H. McNabb Jr. does not have a designated opponent, although the ballot allows for a write-in candidate.

Voters in the cities of Caddo Mills and Campbell are casting ballots either for or against the retail sale of beer and wine, while residents in Josephine and West Tawakoni are choosing city council members and those served by the Cumby Independent School District have a board of trustees election.

Voters statewide will also have a say in deciding Proposition 1 on the ballot, The Texas Transportation Funding Amendment. If approved, the measure would divert half of the general revenue derived from oil and gas taxes from the Economic Stabilization Fund (ESF), also known as the Rainy Day Fund, to the State Highway Fund for the purpose of providing transportation funding for repairs and maintenance of public roads, resulting in approximately $1.2 billion per year going toward transportation funding instead of the Rainy Day Fund.