{"id":397771,"date":"2026-08-04T22:14:16","date_gmt":"2026-08-04T22:14:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/397771\/"},"modified":"2026-08-04T22:14:16","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T22:14:16","slug":"tarrant-county-tables-consideration-of-election-day-early-voting-voting-sites-grapevine-colleyville-southlake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/397771\/","title":{"rendered":"Tarrant County tables consideration of Election Day, early voting voting sites | Grapevine – Colleyville – Southlake"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tarrant County<\/a> commissioners will review a proposed list of early voting and Election Day voting locations for the Nov. 3 election in September.<\/p>\n

Commissioners<\/a> unanimously approved tabling consideration for finalizing the list of voting locations during the Aug. 4 meeting<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The details<\/p>\n

Prior to consideration of the proposed voting locations, Tarrant County Elections Administrator Clinton Ludwig presented a consolidation of the county\u2019s voting precincts from 707 to 340, which was approved by a 3-2 vote with Precinct 2 Commissioner Alisa Simmons and Precinct 1 Commissioner Roderick Miles Jr. voting against.<\/p>\n

Ludwig said state law requires the county to have a number of polling locations that is at least half of the number of voting precincts. This meant that Tarrant County would need at least 170 polling locations, but a few extra were added, which led to the 176 proposed polling places for Election Day voting.<\/p>\n

The proposed 176 locations are a 44.3% decrease from the 316 in-person voting locations that were used for the 2022 midterm elections. The number of proposed early voting locations for 2026 was 42, which is a decrease from the 50 in 2022.<\/p>\n

Tarrant County has nearly 1.33 million registered voters, according to county data<\/a>. In November, voters will cast ballots in a number of local, county, state and federal races, including Tarrant County judge and the Tarrant Appraisal District.<\/p>\n

Some context<\/p>\n

Ludwig said his staff typically bakes in an increase between 10% and 15% for turnout for each election, but because of higher voter turnout, the increase was upped to 40%. Even under the higher expected turnout, Ludwig said the 176 polling locations would be sufficient for Election Day voting.<\/p>\n

Additionally, county commissioners approved a cut<\/a> in the number of polling locations ahead of the November 2025 election to 214. The number of early voting locations was also reduced to 33 for that election.<\/p>\n

What they\u2019re saying<\/p>\n

County Judge Tim O\u2019Hare said he did not support the reduction down to 176 polling locations for Election Day voting.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m not okay with it,\u201d he said. \u201cI think that\u2019s way too large a cut.\u201d<\/p>\n

Simmons said she felt that the proposal made voting less accessible to county residents.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is a deliberate act to reduce voter access,\u201d Simmons said. \u201cYou haven\u2019t given a good reason for it because nobody on the court, according to you, asked you to do it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Going forward<\/p>\n

An updated list of polling locations for Election Day and early voting is expected to be presented during the Sept. 1 meeting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tarrant County commissioners will review a proposed list of early voting and Election Day voting locations for the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":397772,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[116,118,117,133326,5373,122,71370,138079,139641,2279],"class_list":["post-397771","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-nov-3-election","tag-november-election","tag-tarrant-county","tag-tarrant-county-early-voting","tag-tarrant-county-elections","tag-tarrant-county-voting-locations","tag-voting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397771","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=397771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397771\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/397772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=397771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=397771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=397771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}