{"id":438227,"date":"2026-09-17T00:04:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-17T00:04:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/438227\/"},"modified":"2026-09-17T00:04:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-17T00:04:11","slug":"where-tarrant-county-judge-candidates-stand-on-voting-sites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/438227\/","title":{"rendered":"Where Tarrant County Judge candidates stand on voting sites"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Alisa<\/p>\n

Alisa Simmons, the Tarrant County Commissioner of Precinct 2, and Tim O\u2019Hare, the Tarrant County Judge, listen to lawyer Joe Nixon address the questions regarding the proposed redistricting of the county during a Commissioners Court Meeting at the Tarrant County Administration Building in Fort Worth on Tuesday, May 6, 2025.<\/p>\n

Chris Torres<\/p>\n

ctorres@star-telegram.com<\/p>\n

The Tarrant County judge race between incumbent Republican Tim O\u2019Hare and Democratic commissioner Alisa Simmons has been contentious. During the vote to decide how many polling locations would be used for the Nov. 3 midterm election, the two were on opposing sides for the nth time.<\/p>\n

Initially, the entire Commissioners Court agreed a proposed near-halve of voting sites was too deep a cut. On Sept. 1, the Republican and Democrat disagreed on the new list of polling locations, which left 93 sites off from the previous midterm in 2022.<\/p>\n

Here is where the rivals stood.<\/p>\n

Issue: Reducing polling locations<\/p>\n

Tim O\u2019Hare, incumbent<\/p>\n

From the jump, O\u2019Hare said he wanted to ensure each approved polling location had at least 20 people voting at it in 2022 and that there were none across the street from one another. Of the 2022 Election Day sites with the lowest voter turnout, none had 20 or fewer ballots cast. The least used one had 37 people in the 12 hours of voting<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Each Election Day polling location costs around $4,500 to operate, O\u2019Hare said at a True Texas Project meeting on Sept. 14.<\/p>\n

Alisa Simmons, Precinct 2 commissioner<\/p>\n

Simmons was staunchly opposed to any reduction of polling locations and fought to add dozens back to the list when the final vote came around on Sept. 1. Joining forces with U.S. Senate hopeful James Talarico, Simmons stood outside the University of Texas at Arlington Maverick Activity Center for a press conference to say there shouldn\u2019t be any unnecessary cuts<\/a> to the 2022 list.<\/p>\n

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Rachel Royster<\/a><\/p>\n

Fort Worth Star-Telegram<\/p>\n

Rachel Royster is a news and government reporter for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, specifically focused on Tarrant County. She joined the newsroom after interning at the Austin American-Statesman, the Waco Tribune-Herald and Capital Community News in DC. A Houston native and Baylor grad, Rachel enjoys traveling, reading and being outside. She welcomes any and all news tips to her email.\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Alisa Simmons, the Tarrant County Commissioner of Precinct 2, and Tim O\u2019Hare, the Tarrant County Judge, listen to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":438228,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[150,152,151],"class_list":["post-438227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arlington","tag-arlington","tag-arlington-headlines","tag-arlington-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438227","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=438227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438227\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/438228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=438227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=438227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=438227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}