Voting

A majority of council members at Tuesday’s meeting signaled support for sending residents a message on the decrease in voting sites.

Voters on suspense lists who don’t meet the Oct. 5 deadline may still vote in the midterm elections, but they will have to fill out additional paperwork on Election Day to confirm their new addresses.

Tarrant County commissioners voted 3-2 Tuesday to approve a list of polling sites for the November elections that included 92 fewer sites than the 2022 midterms.

One commissioner proposed an increase in polling sites, while another suggested keeping the same number from 2022.

Residents questioned whether officials in the closely watched purple county will make election decisions fairly in a “hyperpartisan environment.”

Former state lawmaker Lon Burnam was carried out of the courtroom by sheriff deputies after O’Hare called speakers disruptive.

Commissioners vote on whether to close the proposed sites during their 10 a.m. meeting Aug. 4.

County commissioners vote Aug. 4 on proposed reductions to the number of early voting and day-of sites for the midterms.

The League of United Latin American Citizens sued Secretary of State Jane Nelson and county elections administrators state-wide for attempts to remove "potential noncitizens" from voter rolls.

Recent polling from The Texas Politics Project suggests Democratic U.S. Senate nominee James Talarico is performing better with Black voters than his predecessors were at this point in their campaigns.

The Texas attorney general appears to have used an address where he did not live while voting in six elections in the past two years — despite his warning voters that “it is illegal to misrepresent your residence on election records.”

The U.S. Supreme Court has upheld a Mississippi law that allows election officials to count mail-in ballots that are postmarked by Election Day but received up to five days after it.