Kerr County Early Voting Statistics

To follow-up on my item yesterday on early voting,here's a report from the Kerrville Daily Times:

According to the voter registrar’s office, 13,028 citizens participated in early voting last week, which ended Friday. That number reflects only the appearance votes and does not include mail-in ballots. These numbers indicate that more than 39 percent of the 33,124 registered voters in Kerr County took advantage of early voting opportunities.

It's interesting that the Democratic party worker quoted in the story says Democrats are hoping that Republicans will split their tickets and vote for Kerry. I've heard little that suggests this is a reasonable possibility.