Early Election Returns Are in on Whether Elon | Political News

You just can not make some issues up, and this just occurs to be one of those tales.

Back in 2021, X and Tesla proprietor Elon Musk expressed his hope that Starbase, the home of the power where his SpaceX shoots off rockets into Texas skies, would change into its own metropolis.

Now, it seems that’s precisely what’s about to occur, after an election on incorporation was held in Cameron County, Texas, on Saturday:

Today, residents of Boca Chica can solid their votes on the potential incorporation of Starbase as an official metropolis pic.twitter.com/VVXQLafqWy

— Dima Zeniuk (@DimaZeniuk) May 3, 2025

via the AP:

The metropolis at the southern tip of Texas close to the Mexico border is only about 1.5 sq. miles (3.9 sq. kilometers), crisscrossed by a few roads and dappled with airstream trailers and modest midcentury properties.

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Companion efforts to town vote embrace payments in the state Legislature to shift that authority from the county to the new city’s mayor and metropolis council.

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SpaceX officers have informed lawmakers that granting town authority to close the seaside would streamline launch operations. SpaceX rocket launches and engine exams, and even just transferring sure tools around the launch base requires the closure of a native freeway and access to Boca Chica State Park and Boca Chica Beach.

All these measures come as SpaceX is asking federal authorities for permission to increase the quantity of South Texas launches from 5 to 25 a yr.

The course of kicked off in 2024, with a letter to county authorities from Kathryn Lueders, Starbase’s General Manager, who mentioned the transfer was just common sense, as SpaceX was “manag[ing] roads and utilities, as well as ‘the provisions of schooling and medical care’ for those living on the property.”.

She continued, “We need the ability to grow Starbase as a community.”  By the way in which, “those living on the property” can also be learn as “the SpaceX employees and their families living on the property.” That’s who the bulk of the residents are. Anyway, they rapidly gathered the signatures needed to get the incorporation difficulty on the poll.

So, voters headed to the polls on Saturday (and the ultimate outcomes haven’t been posted yet), but the early voting period confirmed the poll initiative would possible be a winner, the South Texas Reporter wrote.

Out of 283 eligible voters, according to AP, virtually 98 p.c (173) of the people who voted early pulled the lever in favor of passing it. Four voted no. As the Reporter famous, “election day totals would not be enough to overtake those who voted to incorporate.”

Their report continued with more particulars on what this means: 

Residents dwelling close to the Cameron County launch web site voted overwhelmingly in favor of incorporating the group and, in so doing, also chosen the city’s first metropolis commission.

As distinctive elections go, this one in Texas rivals those in Dixville Notch, the tiny village in New Hampshire that prides itself as being the first place in the nation–just after the stroke of midnight–to solid its ballots in a presidential main (you may often tally the quantity of votes on one hand).

Congrats to the new residents of Starbase–and Elon!

Starbase began with one shovel https://t.co/jwUfNQFHbx

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 4, 2025

S T A R B A S E https://t.co/Qs322y8n6E pic.twitter.com/GCMZAecjnH

— Space Sudoer (@spacesudoer) May 4, 2025

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