The decision in Tarrant County comes amid growing concern about GOP efforts to limit voting access ahead of next year’s midterm elections.

Officials in a large North Texas county decided this week to cut more than 100 Election Day polling sites and reduce the number of early voting locations, amid growing concern about GOP efforts to limit voting access ahead of next year’s midterm elections.

The 3-2 vote on Tuesday by commissioners in Tarrant County, which includes Fort Worth, came one day after Donald Trump vowed to end the use of mail-in ballots. The president lacks the unilateral power to decide how individual states run elections, but his declaration speaks to long-brewing and unfounded claims by some conservatives that the country’s electoral system is insecure and vulnerable to widespread fraud.

Trump has repeatedly and falsely asserted that he won the 2020 presidential election instead of Joe Biden.

  • henfredemars@infosec.pubEnglish
    61·
    2 days ago

    I’m all right with in person, but give workers the time off to actually go vote.

    But really, this is all fake and performative isn’t it? The whole point is to prevent the voting from happening.

    • Tehbaz@lemmy.wtfEnglish
      211·
      2 days ago

      Even if everyone is allowed to vote in 2026 or 2028, the result will end up being manipulated in favor of the Fascist GOP. The last time voting mattered was in 2024 and the orange fuckwit won, like he said - after he’s in the white house Americans won’t ever need to vote again…