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In a local election defined by a rabid amount of early voting, Freestone County elected officials have been decided on, unofficially, in contested races. Early voting in the county accounted for 75.24 percent of total ballots in Freestone, with 6,562 votes cast before Election Day Tuesday.

With the GOP’s majority in the Texas House on the line and Democrats within striking distance of flipping the chamber for the first time in nearly two decades, the stakes of this general election are huge. The balance of power set in Tuesday’s election will define an upcoming legislative session that lawmakers say will be their toughest in years. The issues before them will include a budget strained by recession, state responses to the pandemic and a once-ina-decade redistricting process — always a divisive and partisan affair.

In the state race most pertinent to Bi-Stone Area voters, former United States Congressman Pete Sessions is former no more, as the Republican candidate bested Democratic candidate Rick Kennedy and Libertarian candidate Ted Brown to win the 17th Congressional District seat Tuesday night.