BRAD BROOKS and JOHN WHITESIDES TEXANS have joined a wave of Americans casting ballots at a record-setting pace, jamming early-voting polling places ahead of a November 3 election showdown between Republican President Donald Trump and Democratic rival Joe Biden. Long lines of voters snaked out the doors and down the sidewalks at polling places in cities around the state, social media videos showed, with some people showing up long before the doors opened to claim a spot. In Georgia, where early voting began on Monday, people waited five hours or more to cast ballots in record-breaking early turnout for a…