GOP bid to remove polling sites from Tarrant County college campuses fails

[RandySF]

An effort by some Republican officials to curb access to early voting on college campuses in Tarrant County failed Thursday, after Tarrant County Commissioners Court voted to keep the polling sites in place.

The push to limit the voting locations was led by Judge Tim O’Hare, a Republican and the chief elected official of the county. He said the measure was intended to save money because those poll locations had low voter turnout. Democrats on the commissioners' court and local voting rights advocates called the effort an attempt at voter suppression targeted at people of color and younger voters who tend to be more liberal.

O’Hare has said it isn’t the county’s job to make it easier for specific groups to vote.

The two-week debate culminated in a 4-1 vote in favor of a list of polling locations that instead added a new site. O’Hare, who as county judge gets a vote on the commission, was the only vote against.



https://www.texastribune.org/2024/09/12/tarrant-county-college-voting-location/

[TwilightZone]

1. It was a political stunt.

From what I've read, it was almost assuredly always going to fail, so it was little more than pandering to the GOP base.

Texas GOP officials do that a lot. They spend millions on efforts that never had a chance to do anything other than appease the base. Abbott did it all the time as AG. All he ever seemed to do was sit in his office and file frivolous suits against the Obama administration, costing taxpayers untold millions.

[Beachnutt]

2. O hare stated on the news

"It isn't fair that some folks have voting sites a mile and a half apart and others are 19 miles apart and in predominently democratic voting areas.

In other words he wanted to suppress the democratic vote.
Why not just add more voting sites.
He is another slithering rethug.

[BigMin28]

4. It's Texas

All rethugs slither here. Not an upright one in the bunch. Look at the top. Paxton should be in jail. Patrick is a liar and hypocrite that rails against immigrants, yet hired them when he owned a sports bar in Houston. Abbott is just a greedy, bitter man that wants everyone to be miserable like him.

[msongs]

3. maybe the county's job is to make it easier for everybody to vote nt

[MagickMuffin]

5. Tim OHare is a partisan political tool

He was the gop county chair and defeated the outgoing mayor Betsy Price. I wasn’t a fan of Betsy but I don’t think she is as partisan as O’Hare.

I hope we can get rid of him soon enough.