SAN ANTONIO — When voter turnout for one of the San Antonio's most consequential mayoral elections in some years failed to reach 10% last month, it was mostly chalked up to an overwhelmingly long list of contenders .

If the theory for June's runoff between Gina Ortiz Jones and Rolando Pablos is that more people will get to the polls now that they have a clearer choice and don't have Fiesta to distract them, figures from the recently ended early voting period so far make it a reality.

According to the Bexar County Elections Department, a total of 98,412 San Antonio residents got their voting out of the way early ahead of Election Day on June 7. That represents a remarkable 33.2% increase over May, when the early voting window was also eight days long but just 65,786 San Antonio v

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