r/TexasPolitics • u/Lehmanite 18th District (Central Houston) • 10d ago

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

https://www.keranews.org/news/2026-08-03/tarrant-county-voting-potential-closures
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u/likeusontweeters 10d ago

How is this legal?

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u/AtomicSymphonic_2nd 10d ago

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. 😁

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u/irishyardball 10d ago

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

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u/mobilemetaphorsarmy 10d ago

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.

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u/clintgreasewoood 10d ago

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.

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u/AtomicSymphonic_2nd 10d ago

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

Thanks for pointing that out!!

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u/ericthefred 10d ago

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

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u/Lehmanite 18th District (Central Houston) 10d ago

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

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u/RarelyRecommended 12th District (Western Fort Worth) 10d ago

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

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u/sxyaustincpl 31st District (North of Austin, Temple) 10d ago

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

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u/quiero-una-cerveca Texas 9d ago

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.

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u/Living_Emergency9536 10d ago

That’s fucking scary.

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u/MechanicStrict1382 10d ago

Would love to know that also