Early voting begins Tuesday for the March 7 primaries in Texas and continues through March 3.
On the ballot will be candidates for Texas governor.
Gov. Rick Perry will face Larry Kilgore, Robert "Star" Locke and Rhett R. Smith on the Republican ballot.
Former congressmen Chris Bell and Bob Gammage and Rashad Jafer are vying for the democratic nod.
Independent candidates Carole Keeton Strayhorn and Kinky Friedman will have to collect 45,000 signatures from registered voters who did not vote in the primaries.