DALLAS — The Dallas County Democratic Party dropped its lawsuit that asked provisional votes cast in the recent primary election be counted. The lawsuit originally asked that ballots from Democratic voters who got in line after 7 p.m. be counted after confusion at the polls.
On election night, judges in Dallas and Williamson counties granted an extension of polling place hours when some Democratic voters were turned away from their usual polling places after a Republican decision not to use centralized countywide voting locations.
In years prior, centralized countywide voting had been the standard in both counties.
Later on election night, the Texas Supreme Court ordered ballots cast by voters not in line by 7 p.m. be separated, after the Texas Attorney General’s Office intervened.
The lawsuit being withdrawn will leave 1,756 Dallas County Democratic votes uncounted, according to reporting from non-partisan news organization, Votebeat.
In a statement, Dallas County Democrats said “the party determined that the Texas Supreme Court is no longer a viable forum for a fair application of the law.”
Dallas County Democrats also said they will refocus funds from the pursual of the case toward voter protection efforts in the upcoming runoff election in May and general election in November.