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.

  • Jimbabwe@lemmy.world
    251·
    3 days ago

    Please, as a Texan, I ask you to consider that a great many of us are subjected to this bullshit and not happy about it. The gerrymandering, the poll closures, … these are reactionary responses to a population that is trying desperately to claw itself out of this mess.

    • bobs_monkey@lemmy.zip
      8·
      2 days ago

      As Californian who’s visiting Texas numerous times, your state can be pretty rad. It’s just the incessant politics and your fuckheaded leadership that blows. And the Evangelicals trying to impose their will on the rest of the country.

    • the_weez@midwest.social
      92·
      3 days ago

      On the one hand I completely agree with you. On the other I know that Texas is a maga cesspool. We all know that not everyone in the state is conservative, but we also know that it’s a bastion for conservative leaning people. You might not like it, but do you actually think it will ever change?

      • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com
        101·
        2 days ago

        I know that Texas is a maga cesspool. We all know that not everyone in the state is conservative, but we also know that it’s a bastion for conservative leaning people.

        Except there’s actually more registered Democrats than Republicans in Texas.

        It’s not that the population is overwhelmingly conservative. It’s that Texas is already one of if not THE worst state for gerrymandering and other election rigging by the corrupt state government.

        • PenguinMage@lemmy.world
          4·
          2 days ago

          This is what no one gets, we are a majority that has no voice thanks to a state that shows how you don’t lose power as long as you had it…

      • skisnow@lemmy.caEnglish
        81·
        3 days ago

        You know how all those tech companies have been moving to Texas for all the low regulations and such? Yeah well turns out they need skilled professionals, who being educated tend to lean left.