Texas county cuts over 100 polling sites as Trump attacks mail-in voting nationally

[Zincwarrior]

Republican commissioners in one of the most populous counties in Texas vote to close polling locations ahead of the next election. I particularly like where one says its not their responsibility to try to get more people to the polls.​

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Texas county cuts over 100 polling sites as Trump attacks mail-in voting nationally​

The decision in Tarrant County comes amid growing concern about GOP efforts to limit voting access ahead of next year’s midterm elections.

Texas county cuts over 100 polling sites as Trump attacks mail-in voting nationally - The Texas Tribune

The decision in Tarrant County comes amid growing concern about GOP efforts to limit voting access ahead of next year’s midterm elections.

www.texastribune.org

Officials in a large North Texas county decided this week to cut more than 100 Election Day polling sites and reduce the number of early voting locations, amid growing concern about GOP efforts to limit voting access ahead of next year’s midterm elections.

The 3-2 vote on Tuesday by commissioners in Tarrant County, which includes Fort Worth, came one day after President Donald Trump vowed to end the use of mail-in ballots. The president lacks the unilateral power to decide how individual states run elections, but his declaration speaks to long-brewing and unfounded claims by some conservatives that the country’s electoral system is insecure and vulnerable to widespread fraud. Trump has repeatedly and falsely asserted that he won the 2020 presidential election instead of Joe Biden.

Tarrant County Judge Tim O’Hare, who heads up the commissioners court, has also raised numerous questions about the security of local elections, helping to launch an electoral integrity unit in the county after he became judge in 2022. As of last summer, however, the unit had received fewer than 100 allegations of voter fraud. He and fellow Republican commissioners also cut funding to provide free bus rides to the polls for low-income residents.


“I don’t believe it’s the county government’s responsibility to try to get more people out to the polls,” O’Hare said at the time. And commissioners prohibited outside organizations from registering voters inside county buildings after Tarrant County GOP leaders raised concerns about what they said were left-leaning groups holding registration drives. (ProPublica and The Texas Tribune have previously written about O’Hare’s political influence in North Texas.)

On Tuesday, O’Hare voted with the two Republican commissioners on the court to reduce the number of polling sites in the county to 216, down from 331 in 2023. The decision also cut down the number of early voting sites.

County officials said the move was to save money, as they historically see low voter turnout in nonpresidential elections.

 

[Meister]

Well, if we heard both sides of this story, instead of the bias version.
It would probably go something like, no rural town precincts would be
closed. Those that are closed are in the populated areas where another precinct
is within blocks of the closed precinct.

That happened to us in my town. The one we used closed down, and instead we went to the one
that remained open and was only 2 1/2 blocks further away.
Lets keep it real folks.

 

[Oddball]

But not a single complaint about the centralized huge "voting centers" in AZ, that cause crowds and long lines.

I believe the latest moonbat buzz phrase is "cherry picking".

 

[my2¢]

Things I'd have to know to form an opinion would be a comparison between Tarrant and other Texas counties of the ratio of the number of registered voters per available voting booths. Plus, the amount of time to vote varies from county to county as ballots in urban areas are more likely to include a greater number of local matters to vote on.

But why worry, what'cha gonna do? As always political partisans from both sides will do their best to exploit the system. After all, they're a-holes.

 

[Zincwarrior]

But not a single complaint about the centralized huge "voting centers" in AZ, that cause crowds and long lines.

I believe the latest moonbat buzz phrase is "cherry picking".

Arizona voting centers are not in Texas. This is about Texas.

It would probably go something like, no rural town precincts would be
closed. Those that are closed are in the populated areas where another precinct
is within blocks of the closed precinct.

Tarrant is part of the DFW metroplex. It holds part of DFW airport.

 

[Meister]

Arizona voting centers are not in Texas. This is about Texas.

Tarrant is part of the DFW metroplex. It holds part of DFW airport.

Okie-dokie

 

[AZrailwhale]

But not a single complaint about the centralized huge "voting centers" in AZ, that cause crowds and long lines.

I believe the latest moonbat buzz phrase is "cherry picking".

What "huge voting centers"? I live in the Phoenix area and haven't seen any unless you call having one location for all of Sun City West a "huge" center. However, the longest I've ever waited was a half hour and that was because the voting machines had all broken down because the wrong paper was ordered be used by Katie Hobbs who just coincidentally, I'm sure, won the governor's election. The machines were having to be reset for every voter

 

[C_Clayton_Jones]

Well, if we heard both sides of this story, instead of the bias version.
It would probably go something like, no rural town precincts would be
closed. Those that are closed are in the populated areas where another precinct
is within blocks of the closed precinct.

That happened to us in my town. The one we used closed down, and instead we went to the one
that remained open and was only 2 1/2 blocks further away.
Lets keep it real folks.

“He and fellow Republican commissioners also cut funding to provide free bus rides to the polls for low-income residents.”

The right’s war on democracy continues, seeking to disenfranchise voters.

 

[Meister]

“He and fellow Republican commissioners also cut funding to provide free bus rides to the polls for low-income residents.”

The right’s war on democracy continues, seeking to disenfranchise voters.

And?
Not sure why 'WE' are responsible for getting them to a precinct, Clay.
There still are legitimate reasons for a mail-in ballot, perhaps this is one of them.

 

[westwall]

Republican commissioners in one of the most populous counties in Texas vote to close polling locations ahead of the next election. I particularly like where one says its not their responsibility to try to get more people to the polls.​

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Texas county cuts over 100 polling sites as Trump attacks mail-in voting nationally​

The decision in Tarrant County comes amid growing concern about GOP efforts to limit voting access ahead of next year’s midterm elections.

Texas county cuts over 100 polling sites as Trump attacks mail-in voting nationally - The Texas Tribune

The decision in Tarrant County comes amid growing concern about GOP efforts to limit voting access ahead of next year’s midterm elections.

www.texastribune.org

Good. Get rid of the corrupt ones.

 

[bdtex]

Republican commissioners in one of the most populous counties in Texas vote to close polling locations ahead of the next election. I particularly like where one says its not their responsibility to try to get more people to the polls.​

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Texas county cuts over 100 polling sites as Trump attacks mail-in voting nationally​

The decision in Tarrant County comes amid growing concern about GOP efforts to limit voting access ahead of next year’s midterm elections.

Texas county cuts over 100 polling sites as Trump attacks mail-in voting nationally - The Texas Tribune

The decision in Tarrant County comes amid growing concern about GOP efforts to limit voting access ahead of next year’s midterm elections.

www.texastribune.org

That's how Republicans roll.

 

[hondo 50]

No more mailing it in from the couch.

 

[Dekster]

All those drowned kids showed that Texans have no qualms about consequences as long as they save a nickel.

 

[Captain Caveman]

Republican commissioners in one of the most populous counties in Texas vote to close polling locations ahead of the next election. I particularly like where one says its not their responsibility to try to get more people to the polls.​

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Texas county cuts over 100 polling sites as Trump attacks mail-in voting nationally​

The decision in Tarrant County comes amid growing concern about GOP efforts to limit voting access ahead of next year’s midterm elections.

Texas county cuts over 100 polling sites as Trump attacks mail-in voting nationally - The Texas Tribune

The decision in Tarrant County comes amid growing concern about GOP efforts to limit voting access ahead of next year’s midterm elections.

www.texastribune.org

Well, Americans have .....-

.....to prepare for the next election. So if mail in ballots are scrapped and they haven't got the brains between now and then to sort out travel arrangements with that amount of notice.......

 

[x chicago]

The Democrats' solution will be to build a massive bus system to shuttle their slothful voters.