For every election, Reba Henry has two goals: Cast a ballot on the first day of the early voting period, and get to a polling location as early in the day as possible.
This year, Henry arrived at southeast Fort Worth’s Charles F. Griffin Subcourthouse at 7:20 a.m. Oct. 21, the first day of early voting. She brought along a camping stool to sit in line, with about 25 voters already ahead of her. After about an hour, she had cast her ballot and was on the road to the rest of her day.
“I just like being part of that first wave for whatever the election is. It doesn’t make any difference what offices we are voting to fill,” Henry, 80, said. “I was surprised that I was so far down the line, but happy that people had the same idea of, ‘Let’s get this done.’”…