After listening to 4 hours of public comment, an effort to do away with early voting sites at several college campuses failed. Tarrant County Judge Tim O'Hare was the lone vote against.

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Early voting will continue on college campuses, Tarrant County Commissioners decide

An effort by some Republican officials to curb access to early voting on college campuses in Tarrant County failed Thursday, after Tarrant County Commissioners Court voted to keep the polling sites in place.

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GOP bid to remove polling sites from college campuses in one Texas county fails

Tarrant County Commissioners voted 4 to 1 to pass the original list of proposed early voting locations presented at their last meeting, plus an additional site added by the elections administrator.

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Tarrant County Commissioners keep all college campus early voting locations

An effort by some Republican officials to curb access to early voting on college campuses in one Texas county has failed. The Tarrant County Commissioners Court voted Thursday to keep the polling sites in place. The push to limit the voting locations was led by Judge Tim O’Hare, a Republican and the chief elected official of the county. He said the measure was intended to save money because those poll locations had low voter turnout. Democrats o…

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County Judge Tim O'Hare had pushed to close some early voting sites he classified as wasteful because of their proximity to other polling places.

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Sign up for the We the Texans newsletter to receive twice-monthly updates on our year-long initiative dedicated to boosting civic engagement and chronicling how democracy is experienced in Texas. An effort by some Republican officials to curb access to early voting on college campuses in Tarrant County failed Thursday, after Tarrant County Commissioners Court voted to keep the polling sites in place. The push to limit the voting locations was le…

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GOP bid to remove polling sites from Tarrant County college campuses fails

The Tarrant County Commissioners Court voted 4-1 to allow early voting sites on college campuses. Republican Commissioner Manny Ramirez motioned to vote on the 51-site list, which included college campuses, and Democratic Commissioner Alisa Simmons seconded the motion, reported Fort Worth Star-Telegram. Tarrant County Judge Tim O’Hare, a Republican, was the sole vote against the motion. “I’ve heard all the chatter about voter suppression, if the…

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Tarrant County Republican side with Democrats on early voting sites on college campuses

County Judge Tim O’Hare said he proposed the cuts to save costs. Critics accused Republican leaders of suppressing the vote of young people who back Democrats.

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Tarrant County commissioners approve early voting sites on college campuses

Democrat Commissioner Alisa Simmons was the only one to vote against the reversal. The post Tarrant Commissioners Reverse Course, Block Leftist Group Registering Voters in County Buildings appeared first on Texas Scorecard.

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Tarrant County Commissioners Court voted to keep all eight of its early voting sites at colleges Thursday, after Republican County Judge Tim O’Hare challenged some of those locations last week.On Sept. 4, the Commissioners Court rejected a list of 50 proposed early voting sites. O’Hare questioned why the county uses colleges as early voting locations. He said it is not the county’s job to get students – or any group – to vote.Republicans voted a…

Tarrant County commissioners approve early voting sites on college campuses

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