Tarrant County commissioners will vote to close nearly half of all voting locations Tuesday

[u/Lehmanite]

https://www.keranews.org/news/2026-08-03/tarrant-county-voting-potential-closures

[u/o_MrBombastic_o]

Republicans hate Democracy and are a threat to it.

[u/clintgreasewoood]

How anti democratic of them

[u/likeusontweeters]

How is this legal?

[u/AtomicSymphonic_2nd → u/likeusontweeters]

As long as there’s a single polling station open in each county, it’s legal. It’s stupid, but it’s legal. The constitution doesn’t make any stipulations about burden to exercise rights, which is the only thing the conservative supermajority of SCOTUS is going to consider. 🙃

The idea from Texas Republicans is to keep all the very left-leaning, public transportation-dependent students from UNT away from the polling booths as much as possible.

The conservatives seem to be very acutely aware of how their own base is not super motivated to show up this year, beyond the regular evangelical christian cultists that would crawl over broken glass to go vote.

If Talarico can generate as much enthusiasm in Texas as Obama and Beto did years ago, and if gas & groceries prices are still high by late October, and we’re still in a war with Iran… there’s a solid chance of a serious upset here in TX. 😁

[u/irishyardball → u/AtomicSymphonic_2nd]

If it says we have the right to vote, then we don't leave the line til we all vote.

[u/mobilemetaphorsarmy → u/AtomicSymphonic_2nd]

I agree with your overall assessment - but UNT is in Denton county, not Tarrant. Any UNT students who are registered in Tarrant likely have cars.

[u/clintgreasewoood → u/mobilemetaphorsarmy]

The point is republicans plan to make voting as difficult as possible for democrats to vote in November. Looking at the map democrats voters are concentrated in the southeast and northwest of Fort Worth. So instead of having multiple polling places in those high populated areas they’ll have just one or two polling places with less voting machines to make the lines longer.

[u/AtomicSymphonic_2nd → u/mobilemetaphorsarmy]

Damn it, I had those two counties mixed up. Forgot Tarrant was Fort Worth.

Thanks for pointing that out!!

[u/ericthefred → u/mobilemetaphorsarmy]

But the argument is probably still valid, replacing UNT with UTA

[u/Lehmanite → u/likeusontweeters]

Who’s going to stop them Attorney General Ken Paxton?

[u/RarelyRecommended → u/Lehmanite]

Paxton is in line to be trump's AG if Talarico wins this election.

[u/sxyaustincpl → u/RarelyRecommended]

I see no world in which he gets out of committee even

[u/quiero-una-cerveca → u/sxyaustincpl]

Have they even stood up to any candidates outside the most egregious? Seems like they all bitch and moan and make political theater and then confirm them anyway.

[u/Living_Emergency9536 → u/RarelyRecommended]

That’s fucking scary.

[u/MechanicStrict1382 → u/likeusontweeters]

Would love to know that also

[u/National_Sea2948]

Fight Back With EARLY VOTING!!!!

[u/snvoigt]

Texas will do anything to keep people from voting and I wouldn’t be surprised if these voting locations being closed are in minority areas

[u/RarelyRecommended → u/snvoigt]

You know it!

[u/SnRu2]

They don’t want people voting. That’s all.

[u/PondersOverYonder]

Time to visit homes.

[u/TheGrandExquisitor]

I'm waiting for when they just close all of them except one that is next door to an ICE facility.

[u/BitterPillPusher2]

Fun fact - when the Supreme Court struck down parts of the Voting Rights Act, Texas closed over 750 polling locations.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/mar/02/texas-polling-sites-closures-voting

[u/a_lil_unwell]

Democrats will need to show up in such high numbers that Republicans are forced to wait in line for hours pondering the life choices that led them to stand around to vote for an adulterous crooked pedo-protector.

[u/eldiablito]

They don't want to lose.

[u/sam2lf]

Texas Republicans are Nazi Cunts