A small group of voters in South Texas on Saturday will decide whether the manufacturing hub for Elon Musk-owned SpaceX, called Starbase, will become a city.

In December, Musk’s company submitted a petition requesting an election to incorporate its massive Starbase site in Cameron County just a few miles inland from the Gulf Coast as a city. If a majority of the nearly  300 residents there, most of them SpaceX employees, vote to approve the petition, the leaders they elect at the same time – a mayor and two city commissioners – will be responsible creating the approximately 11/2-square-mile city from scratch.

As of Tuesday, 181 people had cast early ballots, according to county election records, NBC News reported, including the candidates for mayor and city commissioners. Musk, who is eligible to vote in the election, has not yet shown up in early voting data. The candidates, Robert Peden for mayor and Jenna Petrzelka and Jordan Buss for city commissioner, are running unopposed, the Texas Tribune reported.

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