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<br />Early voting for the Burleson tax freeze election was tallied as: 1,404 in person for <br />Johnson County, 237 for the Tarrant County portion of Burleson, and eight by mail, for <br />a total of 1,649, according to City Secretary Mary Kayser. <br />Compare that to the regular election in May, without any specialty elections for <br />Burleson residents, where 254 early votes and 243 election day votes were cast, for a <br />total of 497. <br />The last specialty election where Burleson voters were tasked with deciding a local <br />issue was in May 2004, when more than 3,000 voters turned out to decide two <br />propositions related to the sale of alcohol. In that election, 1,214 early voters cast <br />ballots, followed by 1,925 election day voters, for a total of 3,139. Voters defeated the <br />sale of beer and wine in the city limits for off-premise consumption and passed the sale <br />of mixed beverages in restaurants. <br />