Voters continued to flock to the polls Wednesday, the second day of early voting, with no sign of a drop-off in turnout in Central Texas and elsewhere in the state after Tuesday’s record-setting numbers.

The Travis County Clerk’s office said 38,119 voters cast ballots Wednesday, 2,246 more than what was reported on the first day of early voting.

By comparison, 33,582 people in Travis County cast their ballots on the second day of early voting for the 2016 elections — 4,537 less than what was reported Wednesday.

The surge of voters comes after 35,873 people cast in-person ballots Tuesday in the county — 2,200 voters more than the first day of early voting in 2016 and a single-day record for early voting in the county.

“This election is far bigger and far more intense than anything we’ve seen before,” Travis County Clerk Dana DeBeauvoir said.

Voters reported long lines throughout the day Tuesday. By mid-afternoon, the Travis County wait time map showed eight polling locations with a wait time of more than 50 minutes.

No polling place malfunctions or issues were reported in the county Wednesday.

A record 97% of Travis County’s eligible 850,000 voters are registered to vote in the Nov. 3 election. Statewide, 78% of eligible voters are registered. There are 1.8 million more registered voters in Texas than four years ago, keeping pace with the state’s booming population.

DeBeauvoir said nearly 9,000 voters have hand delivered mail-in ballots, a new option this year before Election Day. An order from Gov. Greg Abbott required Travis County to close three drop-off locations, leaving one open at 5501 Airport Blvd.

“There is this pent-up demand that (the voters) had for voting, and now voting day is finally here and they’re practically cheering in the streets,” DeBeauvoir said.

The clerk’s office also reported it has received 22,577 mail-in ballots as of Tuesday. In 2016, the county received 11,020 mail-in ballots by the end of the first day of early voting.

DeBeauvoir said the county has received 79,387 requests for mail-in ballots, with 75,471 ballots already being mailed out.

It’s too early to tell which party might benefit from a surge of early voters, but it’s clear that there’s a lot of enthusiasm this election, said former state Rep. Sherri Greenberg, a fellow at the University of Texas’ LBJ School of Public Affairs.

“What we’re seeing and what we expected is a dramatic early voting turnout in all the major metropolitan areas yesterday,” she said. “Expectations are that that will continue.”

The Texas secretary of state’s website reported more than 907,000 in-person and mail-in ballots cast across the state by Wednesday afternoon, a lagging number because many counties don’t immediately enter the data.

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Harris County, the state’s most populous county, saw the most voters on Tuesday, with more than 128,000 in-person ballots cast. By 5 p.m. Wednesday, Harris County officials said more than 100,000 ballots had been cast. On the second day of early voting in that county in 2016, 73,542 people cast ballots.

In Central Texas, Williamson County reported more than 22,000 voters had cast ballots Tuesday, surpassing the roughly 18,000 ballots cast on the first day of early voting in 2016.

At 5:30 p.m., Williamson County’s website showed more than 19,000 ballots cast Wednesday.

Hays County saw nearly 6,900 ballots cast in person Tuesday, an increase of about 2,000 from 2016. County officials also reported a surge in the number of mail-in ballots, with more than 14,000 mail-in ballots received Tuesday.

Dallas County saw nearly 60,000 in-person voters Tuesday, more than 1,000 additional ballots than were cast on the first day of early voting in 2016.

Correction: A previous version of this article incorrectly stated the number of mail-in ballots Travis County received on the first day of early voting for the 2016 general election. The county received 11,020 ballots.