Texas Secretary of State Hope Andrade says 68 percent of the 13.5 million registered voters in Texas will vote. If that prediction holds true, more than nine million Texans will vote in the election.

We're as surprised as you are, but we were in the ballpark when we said turnout would be between nine and ten million last week.

Enough bragging. Andrade's prediction would be an increase from the 56 percent of registered voters who showed up for the 2004 general election. That year, 28.8 percent of Texas voters showed up for early voting. We have numbers from the top 15 counties for this year: 42 percent of their voters showed up early.

The early vote numbers from the big counties this year: