The lawsuit comes just weeks after the Tarrant County Commissioners Court voted 3 to 2 to close 92 polling locations. Fort Worth City Council Member Deborah Peoples is one of four plaintiffs in the lawsuit. Peoples said the plaintiffs waited to file until they could review the data and the commissioners court meeting.<\/p>\n
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\u201cWe waited to file this lawsuit until we could pull all the data, looked at the data, and looked at the commissioners court meeting, and listened to what the elections administrator, Clint Ludwig, said about how he pulled it, and then we did our own studies,” People said.<\/p>\n
The lawsuit argues the closures will disenfranchise more than one million registered voters in Tarrant County. In contrast, Republican commissioners have argued the changes will save the county thousands of dollars.<\/p>\n
Peoples said the impact is especially significant in her Fort Worth neighborhood in the 76103 ZIP code.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe now have no voting location in this entire ZIP code. The other sites that were removed, most of them were in areas where there are people of color and poor people,\u201d Peoples said.<\/p>\n
WFAA reached out to the four defendants named in the lawsuit: Tarrant County Judge Tim O\u2019Hare, Commissioners Manny Ramirez and Matt Krause, and Election Administrator Clint Ludwig.<\/p>\n