San Benito driving voter turnout as school board race turning up heat

SAN BENITO — The city’s two rival factions are heating up the polls at the city’s Community Building, turning the bustling voting site into one of the hottest across Cameron County as steady flows of residents cast ballots during an eight-day early voting period. By the close of the first day of voting Monday, residents had cast 313 votes in a bitterly contested school board election, with 300 ballots at the Community Building’s polling site, Cameron County Elections Department records show. In the city election, residents cast a total of...