Gainesville —
Early voting in the 2012 primary runoff election begins Monday in the Cooke County Courthouse annex building at 112 S. Dixon St. in Gainesville.
Participants can visit the annex from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. through Friday during the early voting phase — and regular election day voting in the runoff race is set for 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Tuesday, July 31, at the polling locations in a list below.
All local candidates are running for Republican Party seats. In all cases, a runoff is necessary since each race had more than three candidates, and none of them received 50 percent of the votes, plus one.
Cooke County sheriff candidates Terry Gilbert and Jim Carter will face off once again during the runoff, as will District 68 candidates Drew Springer and Trent McKnight. And Cooke County voters can participate in not only those local races, but also races for the U.S. Senate (between candidates David Dewhurst and Ted Cruz), state railroad commissioner (Warren Chisum and Christi Craddick; Greg Parker and Barry Smitherman) and Texas Supreme Court Place 4 (David Medina and John Devine) seats. The state runoff election includes one Democratic race, with Grady Yarbrough and Paul Sadler running for the United States Senate.
On election day, voters can participate at these following locations for the corresponding precincts:
Precincts 1, 3, 5 and 31 — North Central Texas College Library lyceum, 1525 W. California St. in Gainesville.
Precincts 2, 30, 34 and 35 — First Christian Church, 401 N. Dixon St. in Gainesville.
Precincts 4, 26 and 37 — Hillcrest Church of Christ, 1712 O’Neal St. in Gainesville.
Precincts 6 and 9 — Callisburg Community Center, 92 McDaniel St. in Whitesboro.
Precincts 7 and 28 — Tabernacle Baptist Church, 305 County Road 194.
Precinct 8 — Callisburg Elementary School, 648 FM 3164.
Precinct 10 — Mount Springs Community Center, 173 Mount Springs Lane in Valley View.
Precinct 11 — First Baptist Church activities building, 504 N. Lee St. in Valley View.
Precinct 12 and 14 — Era Community Center, 102 Malone St. in Era.
Precinct 15 — Myra Baptist Church, 218 Bradford St. in Myra.
Precinct 17 — Muenster VFW, 136 Ash St. in Muenster.
Precinct 18 — First Baptist Church, 121 N. Pecan St. in Muenster.
Precincts 19 and 21 — Conrad Hall, 504 W. 4th St. in Lindsay.
Precincts 20, 24, 25 and 27 — East Side Church of Nazarene, 1415 S. Radio Hill Road in Gainesville.
Precinct 22 — Lake Kiowa Lodge, 905 W. Kiowa Drive in Lake Kiowa.
Precincts 33 — Moss Lake Fire Station, 160 Spur 1201 in Gainesville.
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