2014 on the left, georgia early voting for the first eight days. it's more than tripled, compared to the last midterm election. that's georgia. same story over in texas. when texas started early voting yesterday, people waited in lines that snaked around parking lots and schools and city buildings. voters even pitched tents to make sure they'd be first in line to vote. today we got our first data snapshot of what that enthusiasm looks like in terms of raw numbers. what we've done here is come up with the numbers, the data here for the top ten counties in texas by population. top ten counties in texas by number of registered voters. across the last few congressional elections, the first day of early voting in texas in those big ten counties has told a little shy of 100,000. look at this year. it was more than 334,000. that's more people voting than the first days of the last two midterm cycles combined. used to be that you got way more people on opening day for