\t\t\t\t\t\t\tAll early voting polling locations in Tarrant County closed Jan. 25 and the polling locations will have delayed openings Jan. 26 due to icy weather conditions from Winter Storm Fern.<\/p>\n
What\u2019s happening?<\/p>\n
A special election was called<\/a> for the State Senate District 9 runoff race, with candidates Democrat Taylor Rehmet and Republican Leigh Wambsganss facing off for the position.<\/p>\n All 22 early polling locations<\/a> in Tarrant County closed Jan. 25, and the county\u2019s election website<\/a> states that polling locations will open late Jan. 26 due to safety concerns stemming from the storm.<\/p>\n According to a message on the county\u2019s election website, early voters should check back on Jan. 26 to see an updated list of open polling locations and the opening times for those locations.<\/p>\n The early voting period<\/a> is scheduled to end on Jan. 27 and election day is Jan. 31.<\/p>\n The backstory<\/p>\n The seat for State Senate District 9<\/a> became open after incumbent Kelly Hancock assumed the duties of acting comptroller of public accounts on July 1, according to previous reporting<\/a>.<\/p>\n The race moved to a runoff after neither Rehmet nor Wambsbanss garnered more than 50% of the vote needed to win the race and fill the spot during the Nov. 4 general election.<\/p>\n This story will be updated as more information becomes available.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"All early voting polling locations in Tarrant County closed Jan. 25 and the polling locations will have delayed…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":137863,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[116,118,117,58415,58414,58413,7838,58412],"class_list":["post-137862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth-headlines","tag-fort-worth-news","tag-poll-updates-tarrant-county-winter-storm-fern","tag-polls-open-in-tarrant-county","tag-runoff-race-sate-senate-district-9","tag-special-election","tag-tarrant-county-voting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137862"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137862\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/137863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}