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As of noon Wednesday, 588 people had early-voted at the Eunice Municipal Complex for the Nov. 16 election.
Total votes cast in St. Landry Parish at the end of voting Tuesday were 3,264.
Early voting continues today and ends Saturday from 8:30 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Early voting also is conducted at the Registrar of Voters Office in the St. Landry Parish Courthouse, 118 S. Court St., Opelousas.
Voters can request absentee mail ballots until Nov. 12.
Early voting for Acadia Parish residents will be available at the registrar’s office, 568 NW Court Circle, Crowley.

Eunice High School earned its first A in the state’s school performance rating, which were released to the public Wednesday.
Eunice High School Principal Mitch Fontenot said, “We are very excited. We’ve been, especially since last year, we had an 89.7. We were three-tenths away from being an A.”
The Eunice school has increased its score in nine of the past 10 years.
“We gritted our teeth and we were determined that we wanted that A,” Fontenot said before a school assembly at noon Wednesday where he announced the achievement to a cheering student body.

More than 89,000 Louisiana residents took advantage of Louisiana’s early voting process on Saturday, resulting in the largest day-one turnout state election officials have ever seen.
Secretary of State Kyle Ardoin described the results as “encouraging” and has spent part of this week making media appearances while explaining how the process has grown and new early voting sites have been added in certain locales.
The first day total of 89,623 early voters for this runoff cycle bests the last record of 87,066 early voters for the opening day of the 2016 president election.