Although Election Day officially isn’t until Tuesday, more than one-third of all registered voters in Dawson County already have cast their ballots in the general election. Election offcials reported 2,441 of the county’s 7,102 registered voters went to the courthouse to cast their ballots during the three-week early voting period which ended Friday. Of the more than 400 absentee ballots mailed out to absentee voters, 373 of them have returned to the county elections office. While much of the attention in the general election has been on the presidential race and a hotly-contested race for the U.S. Senate seat now held by John ...